Michael Sauers is currently the Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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One Reply to “Broken Meetings (and how you’ll fix them)”
Thank you.
Having just the other day endured a strategy meeting that started with: “I thought that seeing as we’ve all got together we wouldn’t bother with the agenda and just go straight to the last item,” and included the deathless line: “we don’t have any preferred outcomes for the library strategy; we don’t need any input from you, we’ve got it sorted,” I needed something to remind me that There Is Another Way.
Thank you.
Having just the other day endured a strategy meeting that started with: “I thought that seeing as we’ve all got together we wouldn’t bother with the agenda and just go straight to the last item,” and included the deathless line: “we don’t have any preferred outcomes for the library strategy; we don’t need any input from you, we’ve got it sorted,” I needed something to remind me that There Is Another Way.