Since Adaptistration’s inaugural post in 2003, the business has witnessed a number of destructive conflicts between stakeholders over which course of action the organization should engage to best navigate challenging environments. Consequently, it doesn’t take long to begin identifying patterns and although they are filled with the latest trendy bits of business idioms, the underlying patterns remain mostly unchanged. In a sense, it is the same old pig with a new shade of lipstick, all of which can be summed up in the following 10 steps…
A Question Of Live Music
Amidst all of the recent news about smaller budget opera and ballet organizations cutting back and cancelling operations, I decided to find out what groups in the Chicago-Milwaukee-Madison triangle are planning to do for next season. The responses were intriguing…
Friday Thoughts
If you haven’t done so already, this is your last opportunity to complete the 2009 Reader Segmentation Survey and be entered for a chance to win a free three month subscription to The Naxos Music Library – a $75.00 value. The data from completed surveys has been fascinating so far and I’m looking forward to sharing the results at the end of the month, click here to complete the survey. In …
Parting Shot
Although Senator Tom Coburn was the architect of the amendment that sliced attempted to slice the arts out of the economic stimulus package, it is fair to remember that 72 additional senators fell in line to support a bad idea inspired by flawed reasoning. Apparently, Coburn didn’t feel the same sort of moral conviction to craft an amendment preventing the largest US banks from distributing executive bonuses after sidestepping the issue by renaming them “Performance Awards.” Consequently, I think the arts should adopt the same policy, instead of calling venues “Arts Centers” we should rename them “Expressive Discipline Assembly Facilities” which are part of the larger multi-billion (and certainly not wasteful) “Fundamental Fulfillment Industry.” If you can’t beat ’em…
Amendment No. 175 Voting Results
Thanks to Adaptistration reader Geo, we now have the official Senate roll call votes for the “Limitation on Funds Amendment No. 175,” otherwise known as “Coburn Amendment No. 309.” You can find text results at the senate.gov website but since a picture really is worth a thousand words, I took a moment to arrange the results as a color-coded map (tip: anything red isn’t good for the arts)…