Music Managers to Watch Behind Chappell Roan, Olivia Dean & More

www.billboard.com: During a year in which demon hunters dominated, Goose and Geese both flew high and a British breakout earned a best new artist nod — among other major milestones on and off the Billboard charts — these managers helped guide their artists, songwriters and producers through their biggest wins to date.

Michael Cioni on Ingenuity and the Future of Entertainment

Arts Management and Technology Lab: In this episode of the Arts Management and Technology Lab, Alexann Sharp and Cara Flanery sit down with four-time Emmy-winning innovator Michael Cioni to unpack how technology and creativity converge in modern media workflows. Cioni introduces Strada, a peer-to-peer platform designed to enable remote collaboration without cloud storage, and shares career lessons on building networks through industry events (NAB, Cine Gear, IBC) and assembling complementary teams (“Swiss-cheese” collaboration).

How to create a winning business strategy

Fast Company: I revisited my definition of strategy several years ago and realized recently that I hadn’t written about it—just presented it privately to executive teams in the context of my strategy work with them. I decided to rectify that oversight by writing this Playing to Win/Practitioner Insights (PTW/PI) piece on it called Revisiting my Definition of Strategy: Compelling Desired Customer Action.

NBCUniversal Just Gave an RTO Order. Read the Memo.

Business Insider: NBCUniversal is the latest major media company to call its employees back into the office. The company told employees on Monday that starting on January 5, 2026, NBCU's hybrid employees would be required to work in person at least four days a week. Workers would still have the option to work remotely on Fridays.

Crisis Or Strategy? What To Do When The Show Hits The Fan...

ProSoundWeb: In the midst of a fairly frantic load-in for a show in San Antonio, we made a horrible discovery. The lighting rig, the sound system, the entire show was dead. Because the trunk full of feeder cable was missing.

David Roth and Danielle Saks named partners of Bespoke Theatricals

www.broadwaynews.com: Bespoke Theatricals has announced an expansion of its leadership team. David Roth and Danielle Saks, both longstanding personnel of the Broadway general management and executive producing firm, will now serve as partners, working alongside longtime partners Amy Jacobs and Devin Keudell.

Former Google Exec's Two Pieces of Advice for Engaging Meetings

Business Insider: David Singleton wants leaders to stop and think before they attend a meeting. Singleton, the former CTO of Stripe and vice president of engineering at Google, recently appeared on "The Peterman Pod," where he offered two tips to leaders who want to command attention and engagement at their all-hands meetings.

Portland’5 Centers for the Arts faces management change, physical needs assessment

Oregon ArtsWatch: In 1989, Portland and Metro decided that the elected regional government should manage the five city-owned downtown performing arts venues, collectively known as the Portland’5 Centers for the Arts. Now that decision is on track to be reversed, even though the original reason for the decision is still valid and many questions remain to be resolved – especially how to pay for what could be many millions of dollars in deferred maintenance costs.

Kennedy Center names new dance programming director, days after staff firings

NPR: A choreographer and former dancer with The Washington Ballet, Stephen Nakagawa, has been named the new head of the Kennedy Center's dance programming, days after the entire staff of the renowned performing arts institution's dance department was fired.

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park Announces New Managing Director

www.citybeat.com: There will soon be a fresh face at the Playhouse in the Park as the theater has appointed a new managing director. Abby Marcus — currently the managing director of the Orchard Project "performance laboratory" in Saratoga Springs, New York — will be taking over for Buzz Ward when he retires in July. Ward will become Managing Director Emeritus as of July 1.

Meow Wolf | CEOs Ali Rubinstein, Carl Christensen & Jim Ward

blooloop: Meow Wolf, the art collective that transformed into a multimillion-dollar, award-winning Arts Production Company, is under new leadership. As Vince Kadlubek steps back as CEO, the role has been taken on by three people already involved in the leadership structure: Ali Rubinstein (Chief Creative Officer), Carl Christensen (Chief Financial Officer) and Jim Ward (Chief of Content).

How do you calculate labor productivity in construction?

2021-03-01 | Engineering News-Record: Creating accurate projections of the expenses needed to complete a construction project is hugely important to running a profitable contractor firm. There are some variables that are difficult to calculate, however, which makes the entire process of tracking—and improving—productivity challenging.

Performance Space New York Hands the Reins to Artists

Dance Magazine: When Performance Space New York artistic and executive director Jenny Schlenzka asked choreographer Sarah Michelson how they should commemorate the venue's 40th anniversary, Michelson joked that Schlenzka should just turn over the keys to a group of artists for the year.

Schlenzka took her seriously. Throughout 2020, control of Performance Space New York (previously known as P.S. 122) is being shared between the staff and a cohort of artists, who have offices and salaries.

‘A Quick 5’ with Marissa LaRose, New Managing Director at Everyman Theatre

Maryland Theatre Guide: In these very strange times Everyman Theatre, along with many arts organizations, is looking forward to reopening for the 2020-2021 Season. They will be doing this with a brand-new Managing Director, Marissa LaRose. Everyman is getting ready to celebrate its 30th Season with an outstanding line-up of shows starting with “Proof” by David Auburn in September. In their own words, “Everyman is a professional Equity theatre company celebrating the actor, with a Resident Company of artists from the Baltimore/DC area.”

What Does It Actually Cost to Produce a Dance Performance?

Dance Magazine: Right now, with all performances on hold, many dance companies are asking for patrons to consider donating the price of their tickets rather than asking for a refund. But few patrons understand how much it actually costs to put on a performance.

Fine Line Between Collaboration And Exploitation

Butts In the Seats: There was an interesting article in The Atlantic this past July about how the Navy was working on crewing ships with a few generalists who would handle many jobs rather than many experts focusing on a narrower range of functions.

At first, when they were talking about everyone being cross-trained to fill a number of different functions, I started thinking it was a good example for a post about eliminating siloed job functions in arts organizations.

8 Time Management Strategies for Busy People

www.lifehack.org: Over the 25 years that I’ve worked in corporate environments and coached entrepreneurs, people have always looked to improve their time management skills.

As a coach, people often come to me because they feel they don’t have enough time to achieve everything they want to each day. They are busy, but not working on the things that give them great joy or make a real impact in their business and life.

What we can learn from theatre’s performance reports

medium.com: I’ve always admired how the theatre industry handles feedback. First of all, it’s all happening in real time…for everyone. This makes it much harder to cover up slip-ups. If you’re a singer or musician, you either hit all of the right notes, or you can mess up. If you’re a technical operator, you either trigger the correct spotlight or microphone cue, or you miss it. Since every part of the show — good and bad — happens in front of everybody else, there’s no hiding from mistakes. Everybody learns how to hold each other accountable and look for opportunities to make the show even better.

11 Meeting Scheduler Apps to Boost Your Productivity and Efficiency

www.lifehack.org: Meeting scheduler apps are awesome if you use them right. Use them wrong and you can look like an arrogant elitist.

In this article, we’ll share not only how to use meeting scheduler apps to improve automation, integration and reputation, but also 11 awesome meeting scheduler apps you can start using today.

Are Church Planting Techniques Suited To The Arts?

Butts In the Seats: I was recently listening to an episode of This American Life on church planting and found it a little strange to be listening to people use venture capitalist terminology to describe efforts to build new worship communities as “target the unchurched.”