world -- The absence of stewardship -- A troubled world -- Our lethal footprint -- A virtual impression -- Killing our relatives - close and distant -- Enter museums -- Homogenizing the ethnosphere -- Diagnosing the assault on stewardship -- 3. It's a jungle in here: Museums and their self-inflicted challenges -- The three agendas -- The fallacy of authoritative neutrality -- The lone museum director -- Management myopia -- The consequences of hierarchy: Learning from hunters -- Museum exhibitions: Ploughing old ground -- Collections: Museums as consumption -- 4. Debunking the marketplace -- Corporatism has arrived -- Back to the beginning -- A clash of values -- The anatomy of failure -- Courting the corporatists: A cautionary tale -- Business literacy -- Methods aren't values -- 5. Searching for resilience -- Resilient innovators -- Why resilience? -- Resilient values -- Assuming responsibility -- 6. The mindful museum -- Mindfulness -- Museum chatter -- Thinking orthogonally -- Museum mindfulness -- Museums for a troubled world -- 7. Museums: Stewards or spectators? -- A brief retrospective -- The consequences of ignoring the present -- Renewal - denial is not an alternative -- In praise of museums.