Leadership Matters - Leading Museums in an Age of Discord

Today's successful museum leaders bring myriad skills to the table, creating a style that works both personally and professionally. This snapshot of museum leadership focuses on history and cultural heritage organizations to help readers understand the power of individual leadership and its relationship to organizational strength.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Melanie A. Adams, Ph.D.
Introduction
1 Ten Simple Myths (and Why You Shouldn't Believe Them)
2 What Brings Us Here?
3 Leadership Training and Development Today
4 Intentional Leadership: Four Fundamentals for the Twenty-First Century
5 The Self-Aware Leader
6 The Authentic Leader
7 The Courageous Leader
8 The Visionary Leader
9 How Do We Know What We Know?
10 Ten Simple Truths
11 Turn, Turn, Turn: The Changing Nature of Leadership-Advice for Aspiring Leaders
12 This One's for You: (More Than) a Few Words of Advice about Leadership for Boards of Trustees
13 There Be Dragons Here
14 Their Voices Must Save Us
15 The Leadership Agenda for History and Cultural Heritage
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors

About the author

By Anne W. Ackerson and Joan H. Baldwin

Summary

Today's successful museum leaders bring myriad skills to the table, creating a style that works both personally and professionally. This snapshot of museum leadership focuses on history and cultural heritage organizations to help readers understand the power of individual leadership and its relationship to organizational strength.

Product details

• Authors: Anne W. Ackerson, Anne W. Baldwin Ackerson, Ackerson Anne W., Joan H. Baldwin, Baldwin Joan H.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781538118320
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-1832-0
• No. of pages: 282
• Series: American Association for State & Local History; American Association for State; American Association for State & Local History; American Association for State and Local History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, ART / Museum Studies, Management & management techniques, Management and management techniques, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies