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Leader's Digest
Leslie Dillon provides these leadership-related items from a variety of sources outside the library field, including the management literature. You'll find the full text of items here.
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Technology Tidbits
25 June 2009 Here are some interesting technology tidbits from MIT Technology Review’s Web Weekly Update: Simplified Web co-browsing. Many of today’s online activities are deeply social, but browsing the Internet remains a mostly solitary pursuit. Researchers from the College of William and Mary are trying to change that with new collaborative browsing software called RCB. What distinguishes RCB from the few other [...]
Twitter’s 10 Rules for Radical Innovators
25 June 2009 Twitter’s been in the news so much lately that at first I hesitated to include this. But this post about Twitter from Umair Haque (Director of the Havas Media Lab and a Harvard Business blogger) has tremendous relevance for every 21st-Century organization and every 21st-Century leader.
Twitter isn’t just changing how we communicate — it is changing how [...]
Crowdsourcing: What it Means for Innovation
25 June 2009 According to BusinessWeek, while the sour economy may have caused the current boom in crowdsourcing, it’s a creative trend that won’t end with the recession. Here’s why crowdsourcing is here to stay: 1. New ways of doing things. “Traditional forms of compensation connecting corporations to creativity are splintering beyond money to include fame and community.” 2. Mass [...]
Will Libraries Be Absent at the Ebook Revolution?
25 June 2009 It’s pretty clear that digital books are emerging rapidly into the mainstream: 86 % of Japanese high schoolers read cell phone novels; 25 million Chinese read online through a single website (Shanda); the first wave of Amazon’s Kindle DX reportedly sold out in three days. And, in case you missed it, Google plans to introduce a [...]
The Leader’s Lifelong Learner’s Permit
24 June 2009 “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” John F. Kennedy wrote this for a speech he was to give the day he was assassinated. True leaders have a permanent “learner’s permit.” They’re always looking for things to learn — even mundane things — and they never stop growing. In what broad ways do they keep [...]
Facing Tomorrow’s Challenges Calls for Right-Brain Thinking
21 June 2009 According to Daniel Pink, author of A Whole New Mind and The Adventures of Johnny Bunko, responding to the challenges of tomorrow’s world requires more right-brain thinking, ” for example, processing things all at once instead of in sequence, interpreting facial expressions or synthesizing rather than analyzing.” Abilities that are characteristic of the left hemisphere — logical, [...]
Destination Web Site is Morphing
21 June 2009 David Lee King, Digital Branch & Services Manager at the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, looks at how the destination web, though not totally dead, is morphing. “Our traditional destination websites are not as important anymore.” And we need to pay attention to that. While many libraries tweet, post to blogs, have a presence on Facebook, etc, [...]
Ten Fatal Flaws That Derail Leaders
21 June 2009 According to the authors of this article, who conducted two studies to find out why leaders fail, poor leaders suffer from at least one, and often several of these ten fatal flaws. These flaws are all pretty obvious, but ineffective leaders are often not aware that they: 1. Lack energy and enthusiasm. The worst can “suck all [...]
Twitter Research: Men Follow Men; One-to-Many Model
15 June 2009 Some surprising results were revealed in a recent study of the activity of 300,000 Twitter users in an effort to discover how people use the service. First of all, 80% of those surveyed were followed by or followed at least one user. Only 60 to 65% of other online social network users have at least one friend. [...]
Are Your Subordinates Setting You Up to Fail?
13 June 2009 Some subordinates can make it very hard for their bosses to be good leaders, even sabotaging their bosses’ chances for success, whether consciously or unconsciously. How can good managers prevent their subordinates from undermining them? Leaders need to understand why employees might act this way and make every effort to engage them. First impressions. How fast [...]
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