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People are moving at a faster pace through life then ever before. In our technological centered world more work is expected in less time causing people to become over-caffeinated and hyper-connected 24/7. This is where museums can and should step in and give people a space to breathe. However, there in lies the big question. How do museums remain worthwhile to their visitors when all the worlds’ knowledge is at their fingertips? While this can seem like a daunting task with a grim outlook, through his books Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't, as well as its monograph, Good to Great and the Social Sectors, Collins proved, through real-life examples, that times of hardship can be the best moments to seize new …show more content…

No organization can be the best at everything, so it’s important to focus and understand your goals. Answering the questions what can you be the best at, what are you passionate about, and what do you need to do to keep your organization going will help the museum define who they are. Adherence to this idea allows a museum to focus not on what they should be, but on how they can be better at what they are. This focus is what they need to keep up with the ever-changing demands of the public. While this concept helps set a museum get on the right track it can only be sustained through, what Collins refers to as, “a culture of discipline.” The “hedgehog concept” and the “culture of discipline” are really two sides of the same coin. All people involved in the museum, from the director to the volunteer docent, need to be working towards the fulfillment of the museums' mission. With these goals in mind, museums are able to remained grounded in a chaotic world. It allows them to establish trust with their public. Trust that they will continue to be that source of knowledge and trust that they will protect our history. Most importantly, that they will be around when people need to escape the everyday race of life. People can find peace in an art gallery, or learn something they have

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