Luke Weil & Associates Recommended Reading
Stephen E. Weil on Museums
Stephen’s essays and case studies are provocative and insightful, easily readable, and required reading for museum professionals.
Making Museums Matter
Where museums fit in this world.
A Cabinet of Curiosities
What makes your collection special.
Beauty and the Beasts
Keeps you legal.
A Deaccession Reader
Making your collection better and better.
Rethinking the Museum
Encouraging museums to put their collections, facilities, scholarly and technical expertise, and high community prestige to better use.
Museums
Reinventing the Museum, Historical and Contemporary
Perspectives on the Paradigm Shift
Gail Anderson
Make your museum a high-quality, relevant institution.
The New Museum
John Cotton Dana
Learn from an early museum master about informal learning in museums, collaboration among museums, schools and libraries, and the importance of connecting program decisions to the needs and interests of the community.
The Museum Experience
John Falk and Dierking Lynn
See the visitor’s eye view of a museum visit.
Institutional Trauma: Major Change in Museums and
Its Effect on Staff
Elaine Heumann Gurian
Nine case studies on how museums have faced and
managed major change.
Museums and the Paradox of Change
Robert Janes
A case study in urgent adaptation.
Museum Governance
Marie Malaro
Strong Boards of Trustees know the principles of nonprofit governance and handle the situations they frequently confront.
Goal Setting & Growth
The Path of Least Resistance
Robert Fritz
Helps you to create and stay focused on your vision to make it happen.
One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way
Robert Maurer
It’s the small and important steps you can make that can really move you forward.
Time Management
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
David Allen
A fresh way of getting control of the chaos and disarray in your office and life.
Transitions and Change
Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change
William Bridges
Change is inevitable: make change work for you and your organization.
Managing at the Speed of Change
Daryl Conner
Some of us readily accept change, others don’t. Learn to help yourself and others.
Champions of Change
David A. Nadler
Insights into how CEOs lead change efforts – successfully and not so successfully.
Networking
Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
Keith Ferrazzi with Tahl Raz
When you want to be motivated to make and build contacts, network, make people connections, build and sustain professional relationships, and build a Rolodex of trusted sources for information.
Make Your Contacts Count (Networking Know-how for Business and Success)
Anne Baber & Lynne Waymon
A practical, step-by-step guide for creating, cultivating ,and capitalizing on networking opportunities and relationships.
Communication
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, & Sheila Heen
The truth, delivered in the right way, will move you, others, and your organization forward.
Connecting Generations: The Sourcebook for a New Workplace
Claire Raines
Be able to talk to boomers, Xers, Ys, Milleniums – whether they are your clients, colleagues, staff, collegues, Board, visitors, or other stakeholders.
Leadership
The Leader’s Guide to Storytelling
Stephen Denning
Learn how to use the right story to build support, sell your ideas, and facilitate change.
Political Savvy: Systematic Approaches to Leadership Behind-the-Scenes
Joel R. DeLuca
Political smarts, not manipulation, ensures that you share information, in the right sequence, to get the results you want.
Managing Up, Managing Down
Mary Ann Allison & Eric Allison
When you or someone you are coaching needs a reminder that effective employees, bosses, peers, and subordinates manage up, down, and across.
The Effective Executive
Peter F. Drucker
An oldie but goodie: learn how to spend your time for the greatest good of your organization.
Good to Great and the Social Sectors [Monograph]
Jim Collins
“Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.”
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
Jim Collins
Perspectives on great companies; it’s the healthy ones that make it big.
First, Break All the Rules
Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman
There’s a great employee survey in this book that can provide you with insights on how healthy your department/division/company/organization is.
Creating and Sustaining Teams
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Patrick Lencioni
He helps you obtain perspective on where your team may be dropping the ball.
Love ‘Em or Lose ‘Em
Beverly Kaye and Sharon Jordan-Evans
Concrete skills, to-do lists, and what not-to-do for retaining employees. (A good way to reduce the high cost of replacing employees.)
Employee/Customer Care
Taking Care of the People Who Matter Most
Sybil F Stershic
Helps you maximize your internal communications to strengthen employee performance, commitment, and how they serve your external stakeholders.