Leadership Reflections: Complexity and Our Adaptable Minds ? Collaborative Inquiry and Presence-Based Leadership

Editors

Maggie Farrell

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-19-2019

Publication Title

Journal of Library Administration

Volume

59

Issue

8

First page number:

903

Last page number:

914

Abstract

Our guest columnist is Tim Schlak who, like many of us, is on a journey continuing to challenge ourselves to be better leaders and to more effectively serve our organizations. This column presents several of the latest leadership development frameworks that are novel to library literature. Where many leaders assume our minds and identities are fixed, this paper presents theories and anecdotal evidence that our minds and identities are flexible and adaptable to the causes we choose. Complexity is offered as the central feature of organizational life and the responses we make can be intentionally crafted to help us hold our knowledge and our senses of self more loosely. In so doing, we create room to grow and to muster more effective and authentic responses to the complexity we all face in our libraries.

Keywords

Leadership; Communication; Organizations; Development

Disciplines

Library and Information Science | Social and Behavioral Sciences

Language

English

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