Category Best Practices
Stop Wasting Your Failures! Plan for Intelligent Failure
It’s all fine and good to say learn from your failures, but how? First you need to acknowledge that they will happen. Especially right now in the current economy. Rita McGrath notes: Despite widespread recognition that challenging times place unpredictable demands on people and businesses, I still run across many managers who would prefer to […]
Is Good Enough good enough?
I don’t know, but it’s what I’m thinking about thanks to Jason Griffey Think about the services in your library, and the amount of effort and resources poured into making your services as good as they can possibly be. What if good enough is really enough, and instead we should be expanding our range of […]
How social media can hurt your library
We’ve all seen warnings and stories about people getting fired from their jobs because of status updates or photos on social medial sites like Twitter, Facebook and blogs. CNN is has a new one with some social networking don’ts 1. Don’t announce interviews, raises or new jobs 2. Don’t badmouth your current or previous employer […]