And another thing: on the violence of governance

Arts boards, I move that we stop moving motions. Because our unnecessary and ineffective governance procedures are doing more harm than good.

This month’s ‘and another thing’ vlog is about the innate violence of some of our common-practice governance processes – and how they’re not only unhelpful and unnecessary, but in our power to change.

And change them we should.

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This episode draws from or references:

• Robert’s Rules of Order
• Boards Are Broken, So Let’s Break and Remake Them by Michael J. Bobbitt in American Theatre
• And another thing: model (rule) minimums
• And another thing: our cultural workforce crisis

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