> The worst that can happen to a museum professional working in a small-town museum is when board members and
> volunteers are one and the same. Take a board of about 10 directors who also make up most of the volunteer staff and
> you have an explosive situation: most of the times, a board member will neither accept nor be remotely aware of the
> fact that once he/she works as a volunteer on a specific project, he/she does so under the authority of the very
> employees he/she's responsible for as a board member. The most immediate results of this are loss of control over
> project budgets and board interference in staff-level activities - not to mention very unpleasant tension.

Hervé Gagnon