Wednesday, August 6, 2014
If you didn’t catch it, in June Non-Profit Quarterly had a good 101 guide on when it is appropriate for non-profits to take out loans.  Most times you hear about non-profits and …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:19PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Via Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution is a proposal put forth in the Stanford Law Review suggesting replacing board members with a professional board services company. When I first saw the …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:39PM[SHARE]Monday, August 4, 2014
Yesterday, I was speaking with a friend who was learning English as a second language. I don’t remember which word it was exactly, but we got on the subject of corporate speak, the nig…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 06:59PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Over the years I have written about the gentrification effect of artists in neighborhoods. While artists are often displaced as they make a neighborhood increasingly trendy, there have been …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:46PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 29, 2014
There was a post on the Harvard Business Review blog site about a recent leadership study – Why You Lead Determines How Well You Lead. According to the study, people with an internal m…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:15PM[SHARE]Monday, July 28, 2014
When you do a S.W.O.T. analysis for your organization (Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, Threats), Opportunities and Threats were where you listed external situations that could help or hi…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 06:49PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 23, 2014
A couple weeks ago, I encouraged others to take away my right to vote. Why? Because I am an ex-officio director on a board by dint of my position and during a recent review of the board̵…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 22, 2014
I almost passed by a recent post by Lucy Bernholz on Philanthropy 2173 blog titled What Are Non-Profits For? I’m glad I didn’t because her news that health clubs were challenging…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:20PM[SHARE]Monday, July 21, 2014
A very interesting question regarding the relationship between an agent and artist was recently broached on the Musical America blog. An agent who has an artist leaving their representation …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 16, 2014
You may have seen a number of articles out in the last day or two debunking the idea popularized by Malcolm Gladwell that we need 10,000 hours of practice to achieve mastery. A New York Time…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 15, 2014
A few days ago, NPR’s Planet Money ran a story asking why there isn’t demand pricing for movies where you pay more for blockbusters and less for the stinkers. Among the suggestio…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:05PM[SHARE]Monday, July 14, 2014
I am back from my trip to Germany. Part of my trip was devoted to helping my mother do some genealogy research. In the process, I came to a realization I think we have all have suspected- Th…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 06:49PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Some time back I was involved in a project that put me a table with folks from the local YMCA. I was interested to learn that at the time, the YMCA as well as other athletic facilities were …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 8, 2014
If things are quiet for you over the summer, it might be a good time to evaluate your interactions with donors and customers. A few years back, I brought attention to a number of interesting…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:15AM[SHARE]Monday, July 7, 2014
With the 4th of July just past, I am reminded that as bad as we may things are these days, the United States as served as an exemplar other people have sought to emulate. I use that as a rea…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Seven years ago, I made a blog post that included Scott Walters’ ideas about actor training, Seth Godin’s idea about “conceptual dip” and my observations that history…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:26AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Seven years ago, I experienced something of a convergence of events. Not long after I finished reading Peter Drucker’s Managing Oneself in which he says, "Whenever you make a key decis…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:12AM[SHARE]Monday, June 30, 2014
I will be traveling abroad for the next couple weeks, but as I am wont to do on these occasions, I have prepared a retrospective of some interesting entries from the blog archives. Back in A…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:02AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 25, 2014
CityLab (formerly Atlantic Cities) featured an article today titled, “Why Cities Should Be More Skeptical of New Cultural Centers and Expansions,” based on some findings of a boo…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 24, 2014
I have been in my current position for over a year now, but I wasn’t on the job more than a month or so before I realized I was in a situation I had never experienced in my nearly 20 y…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:23PM[SHARE]Monday, June 23, 2014
It used to be that there were constantly stories about copyright owners going after kids who had downloaded music and video or sampled/excerpted parts of works and represented it as their ow…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:53PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 18, 2014
As I noted yesterday, I am breaking up my reflections on Robert Stein’s thoughts on the value of museums and the arts in to two posts. One observation he made that particularly resonat…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Dallas Museum of Art Deputy Director, Robert Stein recently made an argument about the value of museums, and by extension, the arts, as a counter to philosopher Peter Singer’s suggesti…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:13PM[SHARE]Monday, June 16, 2014
This past weekend I went to my 5 year old niece’s gymnastics class. The school she goes to is apparently one of the country’s national training centers. The way things were laid …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 05:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Over the weekend I read a very interesting blog post by Nick Kokonas who implemented a system where people would buy tickets to his restaurants. One of the problems he faced was that they we…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:13PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Seth Godin had a post today reflecting on a woman he noticed in front row seats at a concert being given by jazz bassist Christian McBride. The woman was fidgeting, checking her watch and fi…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:47PM[SHARE]Monday, June 9, 2014
I attended an event at the local art museum which I thought was structured in an interesting way in terms of generating relationships between the museum, museum patrons and local artistsR…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:22PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 4, 2014
The always cool people at Springboard for the Arts (and that isn’t a commentary on Minnesota weather) recently got to do a “TV Takeover” where they explained how they serve…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:56PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Since I am in the mood for suggesting what people should be re-evaluating professionally over the summer, I figured I might talk about finding a mentor today. I actually don’t know if …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:35PM[SHARE]Monday, June 2, 2014
If you are like me, you may be taking time this summer to re-evaluate some of your practices like email marketing. Last year, I came across an interesting set of email marketing myths. Now I…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:11PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 28, 2014
I recently read about a study that analyzed the language used in restaurant reviews. They found that negative reviews often used the language of trauma. Positive reviews either used drug add…
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