The more I read of Andy Hines’ post on “Some thoughts on narcissistic leaders,” the more I smiled at what he was writing, and started thinking of connections between leadership, values, personality and generations. Andy is a Lecturer and Executive-in-Residence at the University of Houston’s Graduate Program in Futures Studies, and is the
Have you ever been involved in creating a practice group with all of the jockeying and politics that is involved?
Don’t you just wish that you wish that you could cast it all aside and just “get ‘er done”, as we Texans like to say?
Well, in my little dream world, I would create my
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I was on a call recently where a bunch of HR Directors were discussing, among other things, training new employees and providing those newer to their job or profession the skills they need to be successful. Someone asked the question, “Does anyone have training programs in place that address this?” and one
I don’t know if I was in my right mind a few weeks ago when I asked Greg if I could start doing some regular guest posts to his blog. I think I might have just not had enough coffee yet to have come to my senses. Nevertheless, I asked, he answered, and I can’t
There were many eyebrows raised in 2008 when John Palfrey was appointed the new Vice Dean of Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School. Many questioned whether a man without a Library Degree (he does have a JD and a Masters in Philosophy) could run one of, if not the most, prestigious Law Libraries in the
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Scott Preston and I wrote a piece for ILTA’s Peer to Peer Magazine this month entitled “Building a Bridge Between IT and Library Services.” This was the third piece of our collaboration of helping IT and Library Services (LS) understand that we are working toward the same goals, and that
As we heard at the ILTA 2011 conference, in order to deliver your goals effectively you must include most (if not all) of the support functions within the firm. Now more than ever, integration between different administrative groups is essential for a firm to be agile, cost effective and client focused. How do you achieve
As we end the National Library Week for 2011, and it happens that Equal Pay Day fell in the same week, my good friend Mary Abraham from Above and Beyond KM, brings up an issue that has plagued librarians for decades. Does the library profession suffer because it is viewed as a “traditionally female”
