Directivos de entidades culturais nos consellos das grandes empresas?

Mathew Caines entrevista a Axel Ruger, o director do Museo Van Gogh de Amsterdam. A entrevista pódese ler completa nesta ligazón. A demostración de como hai xente que vai dous pasos por diante doutra nisto dos museos está nesta pregunta-resposta. A maior parte dos directores de museo galegos pararían a súa resposta no primeiro parágrafo. Os visionarios como Ruger son capaces de continuar co argumento.

What can you tell me about the campaign you’re spearheading to get more leading cultural figures on the boards of major businesses?

The Dutch government’s cuts to the cultural budget two years ago were accompanied by shockingly insulting and denigrating rhetoric. The sector was portrayed a being unprofessional, dilettante and catering to only a left-wing elite, thus completely ignoring the great steps that institutions have taken in recent years to become highly professionalised and target-orientated organisations.

This perception of the sector is also indirectly reflected by the fact that while almost every commercial CEO feels entitled and naturally qualified to serve on the supervisory board or board of trustees of any cultural organisation, hardly any leader of a cultural organisation – at least in the Netherlands – is ever asked to serve as non-executive director of any commercial company.

The aim for cultural leaders to become commercial non-executive directors would be twofold: contributing their expertise to management issues in the commercial sector from a different vantage point, while also creating a greater understanding and respect for the professionalism and expertise that exists in the cultural sector.

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