Every town has one: a slightly out of the way museum. A place you might have frequented when in school, or on a slow or a rainy weekend. It is small but formidable, full of gems. You feel it belongs to you. Unlike larger museums, it nurtures, it surprises.

Now imagine it is gone. And not just gone but axed, its contents sold to pay someone else’s bills. This is the Rose Museum at Brandeis University, its collection suddenly valued for the cash, rather than the education, it can deliver.

Within every company, every town and every household, tough decisions are being made. Cash is tight. Can we keep our values at the fore as we make hard decisions?

photo courtesy of the New York Times