TSI’s Envisioned Future
TSI’s Envisioned Future
November 12, 2009 by Taylor Studios
Below is an excerpt of a memo that I shared with my employees. I often share it with new employees in a face to face meeting their first week here.
I have this quote pasted on my mirror. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader” – John Quincy Adams. Expressing a future that my staff can be passionate about is part of my role as a leader. Hopefully, I will achieve my goal of being a good leader, by sharing a vision.
Envisioned Future
“Through their collections and their programs, museums offer rich encounters with reality, with the past, with what exists now and with what is possible. They stimulate curiosity, give pleasure, increase knowledge. Museums acquaint us with the unfamiliar, coaxing us beyond the safety of what we already know. And they impart a freshness to the familiar, disclosing miracles in what we have long taken for granted. Museums are gathering places, places of discover, places to find quiet, to contemplate and to be inspired. They are our collective memory, our chronicle of human creativity, our window on the natural and physical world… men and women come into museums in some ways to become more human and to discover…that collective experience charged with moral energy is still alive and well in America. The act of contributing to the richness of the collective human experience is at the very heart of what museums are all about…” Museums for a New Century.
We are all a part of what the above paragraph describes. Given the importance of the work, we need to always strive to be as creative as possible, to produce the best product, to believe in the value of what we provide to our client and their clients (the visitors). I don’t want an exhibit going out of here that is just “good enough.”
All things considered, we have to make a profit to be here. I think giving our client the best product leads to profitability.
My ultimate dream is a big one, but I, and hopefully you, will strive to achieve it. This dream is for museums or other clients to strive to have a Taylor Studios’ exhibit in their facility. For them to say with pride, “we have an exhibit by Taylor Studios.” I want our exhibits to go down in history. I want our work to be remembered. I want our work not only to achieve its intent (i.e. educational goal), but also to be a piece of art in itself. Yes, we have to achieve this within a budget. However, Michelangelo had to work within a budget. (Did he ever get paid?) So, push yourself to give our clients the best.
TSI’s Envisioned Future**Statement**: To be the preferred choice in the creation of interpretive experiences based on our ability to provide quality, value, efficiency, innovation and solid relationships.
What is your envisioned future?
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