Ten Questions Every Game Changer Must Answer

Do we need to be game changers in libraries? In some repsects I think so. Not every aspect of the game needs to change put we do have to at least react to the state of play, and preferably get ahead of the game.

Ten Questions Every Game Changer Must Answer
via Fast Company by William C. Taylor

1. Do you see opportunities the competition doesn’t see?
2. Do you have new ideas about where to look for new ideas?
3. Are you the most of anything?
4. If your company went out of business tomorrow, who would miss you and why?
5. Have you figured out how your organization’s history can help to shape its future?
6. Do you have customers who can’t live without you?
7. Do your people care more than the competition?
8. Are you getting the best contributions from the most people?
9. Are you consistent in your commitment to change?
10. Are you learning as fast as the world is changing?

Check out the post for more about each question, or, better yet, buy or borrow the book. Excerpted from the new book Practically Radical: Not-So-Crazy Ways to Transform Your Company, Shake Up Your Industry, and Challenge Yourself by William C. Taylor (HarperCollins).

I’m sure you can reinterpret the text for the social sector environment of library land.

Stephen