In three parts— Library Organizations and Academic Culture, The Seven Stages of Leadership Development, and Cultural Intelligence and Global Leadership—Becoming a Library Leader offers a wealth of resources to help you progress through the seven stages of leadership development:

• Understanding Yourself and Your Leadership Potential
• Emotional Intelligence and Leadership
• Vision and Strategy
• Leading with Intention
• What Leaders Really Do: Communicate and Change
• Correcting through Reflecting
• Mind-Set, Grit, and Resilience

Packed with learning activities, case studies, personal stories, and self-reflective exercises, along with a discussion of library leadership styles, theories, and models for academic libraries, this book can help you both understand leadership and develop it within yourself.