What was the plan?

Strategic Leadership Development for the Library Sector

Margaret AllenCEO and State Librarian

State Library of Western Australia

We want people to lead from whatever level they are in, so leadership is not ME; it can exist all the way through.

Jan Fullerton AO

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Bill Gates

Leaders need to go beyond the concern with particularity; they need to develop the capacity to see the big picture.

Alex Byrne

I have built my organization upon fear.

Al Capone

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we had when we created them.

Albert Einstein

When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question, “How would the Lone Ranger handle this?”

David Brent/Ricky Gervais

Success is not a straight line; not like a rocket taking off into the unknown… True success goes in a circle. True success means taking what you learn, or what you earn , and giving it back again; using your great talent and resources to build up your communities, encourage your peers; lay down stepping stones for others to tread in your wake.

Her Excellency Quentin Bryce AM

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Michelangelo

The clock is ticking. If we don’t change how we do things and how we present ourselves, we’ll just look quaint.

Andrew Wells

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight Eisenhower

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; Leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.  

Stephen R. Covey

There is always ambiguity, uncertainty around something that is happening in an organisation. So let’s not treat it as aberrant, let’s treat it as part and parcel of what we have to do.

Anne-Marie Schwirtlich

Being in power is like being a lady. If you have to remind people that you are, you aren’t.

Margaret Thatcher

It’s really your job as a leader to keep looking for a way through.It’s that thing of not having to necessarily know what the outcome will be, that would be good for librarians to learn…

Cathrine Harboe-Roe

We must become the change we want to see.

Ghandi

…you don’t have all the answers and you can’t have all the knowledge and moving from a mental model where you think you’re the only one resource is an important step to make. You’ll get old and tired if you don’t replenish your own resources.

Margy Burn

Someone has to take responsibility, I will.

Winston Churchill

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Peter F. Drucker

I don't want to be left behind. In fact, I want to be here before the action starts.

Kerry Packer

…we need more people in their 20s who are prepared to take chances but unfortunately they’re actually held down. We talk a lot about staff succession planning.

Craig Anderson

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the things you can think up if only you try!

Dr. Seuss

Margaret Allen

CEO and State Librarian

State Library of Western Australia

margaret.allen@slwa.wa.gov.au