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Sidebar: Director's Project: How Long Did It Take?

Written by Mike Spock

04/23/70

• Director to board: need new organization plan

• 04/29/70 - President of board to executive committee
• 05/06/70 - Director to president of board requesting "sabbatical"
• 05/07/70 - Three senior/honorary trustees to president of board
• 05/12/70 - President of board to three senior/honorary Trustees

05/26/70

• Board votes for director's sabbatical

June 1970

• Spock moves to Institute of Contemporary Art as Director's Project (DP) begins.

08/03/70

• Executive Committee Meeting
• July Report on Director Project
• Arthur D Little proposal for consultation

• Memo to Project Committee: Where the Museum Stands Today

01/21/71

• Memo to Project & Executive Committees re: Interim Reorganization

02/22/71

• McBer hired

March 1971

• Interviews with staff and board and work environment/climate survey

March/April

• Eight half-day consultations begin to work out plan new role for Spock with homework assignments as preparation for each session

05/01/71

• Staff & Board Retreat with decisions discussed and announced

Resulting Turnaround: FY 71 & FY 72

• Deficits end
• Organization stabilizes
• New roles for director and division managers
• Second climate survey indicates better/clearer work environment