Inviting the opinions of trustees and employees, seeking to learn from those around you is untidy. It takes time and patience. If one is not careful, doing so runs the risk of slow decision making, of lowest-common-denominator groupthink, even of paralysis. This I would not permit. But the benefits of acknowledging that a place like Lincoln Center is a public trust that needs to respect the views of trustees and staff, donors and journalists, ticket buyers and passersby are simply incalculable.
