2,241 stories by "Joe Patti"
I saw an article on the NBC News site questioning the value of standing ovations with a subtitle suggesting the seeming default occurrence of the act was a symptom of "'everyone gets a troph…
Many arts organizations are seeing a drop in ticket sales and subscriptions this year which got me to thinking about a TED talk Dan Ariely did about how unwanted options helped helped people…
Back in 2009 I wrote about a TED talk Dan Pink did on motivation. In particular, he discussed how monetary rewards was successful at motivating people in mechanical tasks, but when it came t…
Perusing my archives, I came across a post about something Adam Thurman of The Mission Paradox blog wrote regarding the poor work environment in the arts. While people, including myself, wer…
Looking back at past entries, I came across a post I wrote about educator Jane Remer's thoughts about arts in education. I had read and written this post years before I began corresponding w…
I am going to be traveling and preparing to take up a new position so I am dipping back into the archives to help provide some content while I am busy elsewhere. One of the first entries…
For a long time now pursuit of a low overhead ratio has been viewed as a benchmark of good governance in the non-profit sector. There have been arguments against that view, but the perceptio…
Last month I mentioned NPR was doing a series on theatre in the US. In fact, there is an installment in that series airing today. However, today I wanted to point out a entry in the series f…
Yesterday Daniel Pink made the following Twitter post about OKRs " Objectives & Key Results (because apparently KPIs " Key Performance Indicators, needed to be replaced with another equa…
Over the last few months, Non-Profit Quarterly has run a series of pieces on the topic of capacity building. In particular, the authors have challenged the notion that current capacity build…
I haven't really been paying close attention to all the recent stories about the re-opening of the renovated Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center, but a New Yorker article about how the acoustics h…
Jeremy Reynolds recently wrote a great piece about the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's (PSO) European tour. The article isn't so much about what happened during the tour as it is about why o…
For decades now there has been a belief that the lower the ratio of non-profit's overhead expenses to program expense, the better run the non-profit is. As a result, a low overhead ratio…
Given that today is Indigenous People's Day, I wanted to mention some recent positive developments related to the arts and an increased presence and role of the Muscogee (Creek) people who o…
Countries around the world are eyeing the success of South Korea's K-Pop, and Japan's earlier J-Pop, and are developing national music strategies of their own according to a recent Forbes ar…
Last week Vox had a provocatively titled article saying "Why fewer Americans are donating to charity." Rising to that provocation, I read the fairly lengthy piece that essentially said that …
Last week Barry Hessenius sent me a link to a Buzzfeed article listing answers to job interview questions, suggesting it might make a good blog post. This suggestion was well-timed because D…
If you have read Ve Le's Non-Profit AF blog, you know that he often frames serious topics with a bit of humor, often extolling vegan cuisine and his obsession with the Oxford comma. Frequent…
A couple weeks ago Aubrey Bergauer hosted a LinkedIn conversation with Karen Freeman from Advisory Board for the Arts (ABA) to discuss what mattered most to arts professionals as they sought…
A couple weeks ago I caught an NPR story about a group of strippers at a bar in LA who were working to unionize under the auspices of Actors' Equity Association. The dancers had been dis…
Keep your radio tuned and your ears open to your local NPR station for the next month or so, especially if you are a theatre professional. The network is doing a series over the next five we…
Since there is a bit of a cross-readership, many of you may have already seen that Drew McManus announced yesterday that he was going to cease posting regularly on the Adaptistration blog. D…
By some fortuitous coincidence, I was digging into my news feed backlog and read Seema Rao's Museum 2.0 post on guidelines for museum Tiktok accounts on the same day Ceci Dadisman put out an…
Perhaps it is just the availability of social media feeds and news aggregators to bring information to my attention, but it seems that art projects have been effective in bringing about soci…
So it appears that podcasts have turned into public radio's competitive advantage. According to a recent study, nearly 4 in 10 public radio listeners also listen to a podcast weekly with tho…
