It's a New Year

Looking BackThank you to our 875 Leadership Matters followers around the world and thousands more readers who looked at our pages a remarkable 55,300 times in 2018. And just in case you are new to Leadership Matters, here are our five most popular posts for 2018.

1. The Silent Treatment

2. Museum Pay (Again)

3. 5 Pieces of Advice

4. What's Missing from 7 Factors....

5. Guest Post: The HR Problem

Things & people who inspired us

1. AASLH  posting salary ranges and the National EMP Network for giving voice to the salary transparency effort.

2. Colleen Dilenschneider for her clear, insightful look at the non-profit world.

3. Susie Wilkening for her research about who visits museums and why.

4. Appointments of Linda Harrison as President and CEO of the Newark Museum; Kaywin Feldman as the National Gallery of Art's fifth director and Anthea Hartig as the first woman director of the Museum of American History, plus many others -- the diverse list of directors and curators is growing and, for that, we are very inspired!

5. MOMA Protests

6. Hannah Hethmon's great list of museum and library allied podcasts.

7. Our Johns Hopkins University graduate students.

8. The men and women attending the AASLH Leadership Forum this year and our colleague, Greg Stevens, with whom we developed and led the Forum's agenda.

Looking Forward: Where to Find Us in 2019

1. February 5, 2019, Baylor University, Waco, Texas: Where we will deliver the Largent Lecture on the topic of women in the museum workplace.

2. Two Webinars for the Office of Programs and Outreach at the Wisconsin Historical Society: Leadership Matters: Thoughts on 21st-Century Museum Leadership, January 30 and Women in Museums on March13, 2019

3. Pennsylvania Museums Annual Conference, Keynote Address, April 7-9, 2019

4. AASLH Annual Meeting August 28-31 in Philadelphia

Our 2019 Wishlist

1. For the American Alliance of Museums and the American Association of State & Local History to join forces to combat sexual harassment in the museum/heritage organization workplace.

2. For museums, their boards and leadership to lead the non-profit world in closing the gender pay gap.

3. For museum and heritage organization boards to commit to spending a minimum of two meetings a year on why they do what they do, what it means, and how to be better leaders.

4. For museums, their boards and leadership to work toward eliminating tokenism, bias, and stereotyping throughout the hiring process.

5. For AAM & AASLH to follow the lead of the American Library Association and pass a living wage resolution.