Leadership & Management for the Military Librarian. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Military Librarians Workshop, 14-16 October 1981.

摘要

The theme of the 25th Military Librarians Workshop was Leadership and Management for the Military Librarian. Two basic premises supported this choice. The first was that, although a lot has been written and much is understood about the nature of great leaders like Caesar, Joan of Arc, Lincoln or Roosevelt, the knowledge gained from a study of such charismatic figures is not particularly applicable to those who, while intelligent and competent, cannot count on leading by virtue of extraordinary power over others, They must substitute competence for charisma. The second premise focused on the management part of the workshop theme, and held that management cannot be taught but it can be learned. This idea was borrowed from the Harvard Business School Curriculum of the 50s and 60s, and provided at least a partial explanation for the extensive use by that prestigious school of the case method: one learns management by managing. And that is what the 25th Military Librarians Workshop was all about.