creating a flat library and the culture of maybe

An Anonymous Patron writes “At walking paper, Aaron Schmidt writes a post about creating a flat organizational structure at his library through encouraging a “Culture of Maybe.”

A nice organizational structure is fine and dandy but it is also meaningless without the right attitude to back it up. Libraries with severe hierarchies either are the result of or set the stage for a strong Culture of No. It is probably a “chicken or egg” question but either way, a library can’t have a free flowing exchange of ideas in a collaborative environment if the Culture of No dominates.

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