01.15.20
New library directors take note: those first few months are all about listening and learning. Focus on your staff, your trustees, and the community, and you’ll be golden.
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Podcast Episode: Build a Better Board
12.06.19
Constructing a strong board is all about recruitment, composition, and management. Ready to find the right advocates for your library?
Podcast Episode: Assemble an Effective Strategic Planning Committee
09.04.19
Who should be on a library strategic planning committee? How to manage committee politics? What is the committee's role before, during, and after the plan is developed?
Deflating the Hierarchy. Pumping up the Flat.
08.26.19
Top-down versus participatory library leadership as the profession embraces innovation and customer-centrism.
Podcast Episode: Pass a Millage Increase
08.07.19
Lisa Hoenig, Director of the Ypsilanti District Library, provides useful direction and insights for libraries working to raise operational funds especially in communities that were hard hit by the downturn in the economy.
Five Ways to Say “No” to your Boss
04.11.12
How do you say “no” to your boss? Here are five key suggestions from the boss’s side of the desk.
