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1. ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP
IN MUSEUMS:
Creating a climate for new ideas
Original article written by Robert Thorpe and
Lucy Shaw, from the University of Oxford.
Summarized by Museum Hack

2. Museums are operating
in a highly challenging
environment –
economically, politically
and socially.

3. The
‘business
as usual’
approach
isn’t enough.

4. Leaders need to
respond to
challenges:
by taking risks
with new
business models
and methods.

5. Museum leaders need
to support and create a
climate for new
ideas.

6. Playing it safe
will not lead to new
ways of working or
generating income.

7. Leaders need to uncover the
hidden talents and qualities
of their people.

8. Leaders need
to develop and
encourage
new ways
of thinking.

9. Changing behaviours
and acquiring
new skills will help
museums adapt.

10. They have to be
honest, courageous
and prepared to
engage in measured
risk-taking.

11. If a leader is open and adaptive
themselves, then people will follow.

12. Adaptive leaders need to take
charge of themselves, then their
team, and then the task in hand.

13. They need to be able to
take the pulse
of their museum.

14. Leaders need to be asking questions:
● What are we doing?
● What do we need to do?
● How can we achieve this?

15. Today, museums must
start thinking more
entrepreneurially if they
want to be sustainable.

16. “Adaptive Leadership in Museums:
Creating a climate for new ideas”
Original article written by Robert Thorpe,
Operations Director, Ashmolean Museum of Art and
Archaeology, University of Oxford and Lucy Shaw,
ASPIRE Manager, University of Oxford
Summarized by Museum Hack
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