Drew McManus on the Orchestra business | est. 2003

At Least There’s No Shortage Of Things To Fix

Tue, Feb 2, 2022
by Drew McManus
The folks over at LaPlaca Cohen and Slover Linnet released the latest installment in their Culture Track series and as always, it’s filled with wealth of useful information. The results from this round included surveys and research from the latter half of 2021 and by this point, the group had a much deeper well to
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How Do We Prevent The Great Resignation From Becoming An Extinction Event For The Arts?

Mon, Feb 2, 2022
by Drew McManus
Workplace culture and job satisfaction have been regular topics here at Adaptistration for nearly two decades and while change moves at a glacial pace, I am seeing more positive change over the past three years than the decade prior. Case in point, Tom O’Connor recently posted something at LinkedIn on that topic that comes across
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Nothing Like User Feedback To Help Make Things Better

Thu, Feb 2, 2022
by Drew McManus
Today’s post begins with analytics. I was examining the user flow for organization’s posting job listings at ArtsAdminJobs.com to see if any of the changes rolled out over the last few months had any unexpected negative impact. The good news is the answer was no; at the same time, I did discover one step in
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LinkedIn Is Officially More Useful Than Facebook

Tue, Feb 2, 2022
by Drew McManus
Allow me to clarify today’s title a bit by saying LinkedIn is more useful when it comes to engaging with colleagues on news and topics about the field and arts management in general. I don’t know when the shift happened exactly but last week, it became clear I’m spending more time scrolling through my LinkedIn
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Applying Parkinson’s Law To Create More Efficient Processes

Mon, Feb 2, 2022
by Drew McManus
The latest installment in the series of articles I’m writing about how arts administrators can use the Laws of User Experience to be better at just about everything they do is now published! This article focuses on Parkinson’s Law, which dictates any task will inflate until all the available time is spent. It’s common to apply this
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