Publications and Presentations Highlights
Inverting Western Business Models: Why Museum Practices Are Key to a New Leadership Paradigm
2nd International Committee on Management of International Council of Museums (International Council of Museums standing committee on managementINTERCOM/ICOM) Meeting 2006 "New Roles and Missions of Museums" Taipei, Taiwan, November 2-4, 2006.
Abstract: In this paper I propose an inversion of common management wisdom. I will argue that, as a new paradigm for creating "knowledge economy" organizations, the museum model of stewardship and innovation has much to teach corporations about long-term survival. Museum leaders have been adept at harnessing internal creativity and inspiring supporters. Their humanities backgrounds have prepared museum leaders to deal with the "phenomenon of organized complexity." (Ghoshal, 2005, p. 81)
Appreciative Inquiry case study: executive MBA candidates in The Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook (pp. 81-85). Greenleaf Publishing, UK, and AMACOM in North America. Jeana Wirtenberg et al, ed.
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"The Art of Leading the Museum—managing for wonder." 4th Annual Critical Management Studies Conference, Cambridge, UK, July 4-6, 2005. What about museum leaders humanities background has informed their leadership capabilities.
(Working paper)
"Creative marketing strategies in small museums: up close and innovative," in International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing Volume 10 Issue 4 - November 2005 (199 - 287) Special Issue: Creativity and the Nonprofit Marketing Organization. This special issue looks at the creative theory of marketing, which is included in early editions of Philip Kotler’s Marketing textbook, but completely missing from later editions.
"Getting Started: Involving Your Community in Exhibit Planning." Conference Paper presented at American Association of Museums Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO, May, 2000. Posted August, 2006, on Community Organizing
Website: http://comm-org.wisc.edu/papers2006/mcnicholmuseum.htm
A Charge to Wonder: the Art Museum as Laboratory. An analysis of "How We Think" based on student writings collected over 15 years on their museum experience.
This article has been revised with the title "The Art Museum as Laboratory for Imagining a Sustainable Future" and is currently under review.