Executive Affairs
Breaking The Glass Ceiling Back In 2004
Tue, Oct 10, 2016
by Drew McManus
One of my all-time favorite interviews is from 2004 with Marianne Lockwood. At the time, she was serving as executive director for Orchestra of St. Luke’s (OSL) after spending 20 years with the ensemble growing it from a tiny vanity ensemble project into one of the first, and arguably, only genuine new model orchestral performing
Examining The Value Of Morals Clauses
Thu, Mar 3, 2016
by Drew McManus
A morals clause, a provision in a contract or work agreement that prohibits or penalizes certain behaviors, have been around since the early part of the 20th century but by and large, they haven’t entered into mainstream employment agreements throughout the performing arts field. For the most part, they really aren’t applicable and/or the salaries
If You’re Over 40 And Make Decisions About your Org’s Website, You Need To Watch This Video
Mon, Mar 3, 2016
by Drew McManus
We’ve all been in one of those meetings where important decisions need to be made about something crucial to an arts organization’s success and the senior executive responsible for making the decision seems hell-bent on a direction that screams out-of-date and out-of-touch. That’s HiPPO (Highest Paid Person’s Opinion) decision making at its worst. Although experience
How To Stop Saying No To Ideas
Thu, Oct 10, 2015
by Drew McManus
Experience is a wonderful thing; it provides leaders with the ability to analyze a large amount of variables in short order while simultaneously arriving at a decision with a reliable degree certainty that it is indeed the best course of action. After a certain career threshold, this skill becomes a second skin, you wear it
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