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As a leader, how do you balance the need to show confidence and model energetic engagement with the need to show vulnerability and human openness? For me, the struggle to strike that balance takes the form of an internal dialogue like this.
Remember when you were a kid, and you asked your mom or dad why you had to do something, and the answer was “Because I said so”? Remember how much you hated that? Well, guess what: being a leader means you have the chance to do better.
Every library director is carrying around a bottomless bag of something that is highly valuable, but also of no direct use to him or her. Intrigued? (Confused?) Read on.
Sure, there are some sucky things about being a library leader. But the great things are pretty great. Here are five of them.
Leadership is a mixed bag of great things and not-so-great things. Today, five of the latter; on Thursday, five of the former.
