NASA management’s dirty laundry gets aired
This has been all over the news of late, but that doesn't make it any less juicy. A NASA group was assigned to find barriers to innovation within the organization. So they did. And their final product was not some stodgy memo or report, but a video which they have so nicely posted on YouTube for all to see: Barriers to Innovation and Inclusion.
If you find that you have barriers to innovation and inclusion at your own library, you will find this video very applicable to your own situation. Every organization's problems are pretty much the same. Yes, even NASA too.
I can't help but think that this might be a good video to show at a staff meeting, or at a staff training for managers. We all have the best intentions, but we squash each other from time to time without even meaning to. And then there are those who actually do mean to squash people and ideas, but there's not much to be done about them except to get them fired.
February 10th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
…except when those are the people who are in ultimate positions of power and therefore untouchable by we who occupy the trenches. They are more likely to get us fired, or to make life miserable enough for us to drive us out.