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Issue 341: Adapt to survive 2: working culture and practice

  • Adapt to survive 2: working culture and practice

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    10 Feb 2021

    Covid-19 has proved that what worked back then won’t work now. Patrick Towell says true innovation requires attention, collaboration, and a sense for ideas that can be scaled up for success.

    Our studies on resilience for Arts Council England and National Lottery Heritage Fund in 2018/19 emphasised cultural leaders’ understanding of the need to prioritise ‘bouncing forwards’ towards a ‘new normal’ rather than just bouncing back to what had gone before. The times that we found ourselves living through mere months later proved them very right indeed. 

    While it is hard to be optimistic right now, it’s important to try reframe our challenges from just overcoming adversity in a... more

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