Friday Selection Box: 11th June 2021

Trusting staff and trust from staff

Great, short piece on trust and smart collaboration from Heidi Gardner.

Stop being so hard on yourself

self-criticism is a poor strategy. When used excessively, it is consistently associated with less motivation, worse self-control, and greater procrastination. In fact, self-criticism shifts the brain into a state of inhibition, which prevents you from taking action to reach your goals.’

This one really hit home for Susan!

Visibility of the work

Lovely piece from Cassie Robinson that sums up why public writing matters.

Five behavioural biases that trip up remote managers

As some organisations are being able to open to the public and recruit or recall staff from furlough this felt like a really timely piece about the biases that can shape our assumptions about others online.  I really like the tips on how to counteract the 5 biases.

Stream if you wanna die faster

An enlightening, fascinating and challenging debate. Very pertinent as we consider our future business models and how we now interact in a hybrid space. How does it affect your thinking if you know that every Google search you do uses enough energy to boil an egg?

Museums, Cities, Cultural Power Symposium: 24th & 25th June

In case you hadn’t spotted it this might be of interest.

Museums, Cities, Cultural Power offers a critical space for cultural and museum practitioners, academics, urbanists, architects, and activists to explore the civic, cultural, and economic agency of contemporary urban museums.