In
this month's Harvard
Business Review, Peter Drucker describes
eight practices that make an effective
executive:
- They
ask, “What needs to be done?”
- They
ask, “What is right for the enterprise?”
- They
develop action plans
- They
take responsibility for decisions
- They
take responsibility for communicating
- They
are focused on opportunities rather
than problems
- They
run productive meetings
- They
think and say “we” rather than “I”
These
characteristics and practices also describe
an effective executive board
and describe well the conversations our
board has had while considering the next
strategic plan, or as we think of it lately,
the next strategic conversation.
So
far we have engaged in a Strategic Planning
Day (November 2003) to begin determination
of what types of mega issues face the
profession and the association. In April
we held a Planning Day in which we discussed
different models for the strategic planning
process, transformational vs. strategic
change, transparency, trust, and Thinking
Big.
In
the end we agreed on a six-step process:
Step
1: Plan for Planning (April 2004)
Step
2: Research: Environmental scanning
and input into vision; assumptions about
the future. We will gather data from external
as well as internal audiences.
Step
3: Strategic Planning Retreat
(Fall 2004): Develop the vision and draft
the plan
Step
4: Test direction – engage membership
in a discussion of the vision and the
plan
Step
5: Refine the plan based on the
outcome of our discussions in Step 4
Step
6: Orient membership, leaders,
staff about implementing the plan.
We
will engage a strategic planning committee
to guide the process and the research.
This planning team will be drawn from
the Executive Board and other key voices
that can provide missing strategic perspectives.
You
can expect to hear more about the process
from the Executive Board and myself in
the months ahead. We also encourage your
thoughts and opinions – the plan will
only be as robust as our conversations!
Congratulations,
Accomplished Ones!
Please
be sure to congratulate your colleagues
for their accomplishments and contributions
to AALL and the profession. This year's
award winners are:
MARION
GOULD GALLAGHER DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
AWARD (to be featured in
June 2004 Spectrum)
Shirley
Hart David, Sacramento County
Public Law Library
Thomas
H. Reynolds, University of California
, Berkley School of Law Library
JOSEPH
L. ANDREWS BIBLIOGRAPHIC AWARD
(to be featured in June 2004 Spectrum)
Loretta
Price , Joel A. Katz Law Library
at the University of Tennessee College
of Law , for An Explosive Quarter-Century:
A Guide to Monographic Works on Women's
Legal and Political Rights
AALL
SPECTRUM ARTICLE OF THE YEAR AWARD
Jean
M. Holcomb , King County Law
Library, for “The Annual Report: An Overlooked
Opportunity to Tell the Library's Story,”
AALL Spectrum , June 2003
LLJ
ARTICLE OF THE YEAR AWARD
Georgia
Briscoe , University of Colorado
Law Library; Karen Selden ,
University of Colorado Law Library; and
Cheryl Rae Nyberg , University
of Washington Gallagher Law Library, for
“The Catalog vs. the Home Page? Best Practices
in Connecting to Online Resources,” Law
Library Journal Spring 2003 (Vol.
95, No. 2)
AALL/WEST
EXCELLENCE IN MARKETING AWARD
Best
Brochure: Greenebaum Doll and McDonald
( Lexington , Ky. ) for Greenebaum
Library and Research Service Brochure
Best
Newsletter: Dorsey and Whitney
( Minneapolis ) for Iraq Practice
Daily Newsletter
Best
Campaign: Law Librarians Association of
Wisconsin for LLAW Publication
Project
Best
P.R. Toolkit: Sacramento County ( Calif.
) Public Law Library
Best
Use of Technology: Carroll Burdick and
McDonough Library ( San Francisco
) for Client Development Request Form
AALL
RESEARCH GRANT
Samuel
E. Trosow, University of Western
Ontario , for “Open Access to Scholarly
Communications in the Field of Law: A
Preliminary Assessment of Existing Copyright
Policies”
