Being a Good Boss

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Whether we have "manager", "coordinator" or "director" in our title or not, we all manage. Non-managers often manage shelving staff, volunteers, patrons and others who come into - or work  - at the library. This includes co-workers and our managers!

So it's good to consider how to be more thoughtful in how we think about management and being a "boss." In this recent Letters to a Young Librarian post, Baharak Yousefi goes beyond the very practical advice to "be a decent human being" and breaks down what everyone can do to be the boss of boss.