Top 10 Worries?
It’s Thanksgiving Week in the US, meaning no newsletter on Thursday.
Today, a top ten list of the worries I bet we all have in common. Tomorrow, a top ten list of the joys we all share. It’s Thanksgiving, after all.
Hit REPLY to this one, and tell me your #1 worry right now. Warning: I might publish them.
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Exhibition projects are high-pressure, deadline-driven, and complicated. I think we all have worries in common. And somehow that’s comforting.
Here’s a list:
1. Budgets
Limited funding, always balancing big ideas and less-big budgets.
2. Timelines
Opening dates don’t move, but things get delayed, and schedules shift.
3. Feasibility
We are asked to deliver a big idea, but how do we build it? Regulations keep us compromising.
4. Stakeholders
Diverse voices: great, until we need decisions. And now politics are involved in everything.
5. Technology
Tech seems so easy from the outside. Then the maintenance bill comes. Can cutting-edge be reliable?
6. Objects
We meet conservation requirements, but where are the loans? Insurance stipulates … what again?
7. Logistics
That’s a lot of contractors who need access at different times. When do they all leave, so we can start artifact install?
8. Communication
Everybody has to stay informed or we risk misalignment of goals, gaps in workflow, and constant rework.
9. Expectations
High visitor expectations are one thing, but must they get higher every day? Is something not required to be the most innovative and immersive ever?
10. Capacity
Sometimes it’s crickets in here. Sometimes it’s nights and weekends for a year, with the wind whispering “burnout”.
Here’s the thing:
We all have more worries in common than we think. Do you worry about budgets, timelines, feasibility, stakeholders, technology, objects, logistics, communication, expectations, and capacity too?
Which of these — or one not listed — is your #1 top worry right now?
Hit REPLY and LMK.
Warmly,
Jonathan
P.S. Should we be worried when nobody adds “AI adoption”?
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