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Maximize the Potential of Your Public Library
You may be aware of this new report, but if not: The International City/County Management Association has released their study Maximize the Potential of Your Public Library. Their general...
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Building a Better Manager
How do you determine what makes a great branch manager? The results would be fairly obvious, I suspect… along the lines of have a clear vision and strategy for your team, help staff with career...
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Three Ways to Focus on Self-Improvement
How do you become a better boss? How do you develop stronger leadership abilities? If leadership is primarily an act of social influence designed to people toward a common goal (any dispute there?),...
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Can We Teach Innovation?
Increasingly, innovation is seen as a key to survival as libraries seek to reposition and rebrand themselves. But who leads innovation? What do successful innovators look like? How do you develop a...
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Three Ingredients for Innovation
Guest Posting by Jacqueline van Dyk Innovation has been a buzzword in library circles for the past few months – Ken Haycock has written about it, and it was the theme of the Ontario Library...
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Innovate to Thrive
Guest Posting by Jacqueline van Dyk Charles Leadbeater is a leading authority on innovation in public services. He served as an advisor to Tony Blair. In 2003, he wrote a book called Overdue in which...
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What is the Next Generation of Libraries?
Thomas Frey, futurist and executive director of the DaVinci Institute, worked with more than 300 library and municipal leaders recently to begin a conversation focused on libraries and cities preparing...
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Social Innovation with Libraries
You have no doubt seen this video of an innovative approach to encouraging the use of stairs. If you haven’t seen it, take a look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbWjcNyOrk4 So, I started wondering how...
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Top 10 Elite Job Interview Questions
As CEOs and HR directors focus more on leadership, leadership potential and leadership development, we might consider some of these questions. Remember that interview questions should rarely be asked...
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