Management Style
Thank to Finn Hoenke, Aero Hoenke, Haley Hoenke, Elias Spruill, Janine Veazue, Barry Bonds, Bobby Bonilla, Chuck E Cheese, Marvin Gaye, The cast of Star Wars, and many others for making my office a...
View ArticleLeadership VS Management
another look at management vs leadership #lis7700 pic.twitter.com/z1IzxZHrOV — Anthony Molaro (@infoactivist) March 4, 2015 The past few weeks have found me focused on one question when it comes to...
View ArticleThank You Chattanooga
As you read this, my family and I are heading North through Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia on our way to the next stop in our journey…Pennsylvania. A moment in time like this…a moment of great...
View ArticleWork Environments, Happiness, and Human Beings
Two really great articles about work environments and employee happiness came out this weekend, both via the NY Times: When You’re in Charge, Your Whisper May Feel Like a Shout Inside Amazon:...
View ArticleManagement Style (Version 2.0)
Me in my natural library habitat these days. The standing desk is working out well. I feel better about life and my health because of it. I want to have plants all around me and in time this will...
View ArticleThree Things You May Not Know About Your Manager/Library Director
I saw a cardinal this morning. It was great. — Justin Hoenke (@JustinLibrarian) March 20, 2018 It is so bizarre for me to vocalize this, but coming up in June I will have been a library director for 3...
View ArticleThe Public Library Journey So Far
When it all is said and done I guess you can say that I got tired of the path I was on in public libraries. After so many years in Youth Services, I felt like I had achieved any personal professional...
View ArticleBullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber
Over the last month or so I have been ready Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber. This book came into my world after talking to my extended family about the weirdness of how we work, why we work,...
View ArticleManagement Style (Version 3.0)
Management Style Version 2.0 can be found here. Management Style Version 1.0 is right here. I am now six months into my New Zealand library experience and the thought that keeps coming back through my...
View ArticleA New Approach To References
I am updating the ol’ resume/CV because it just feels like it is time for that and also because I will completely forget about the things I have worked on if I don’t remember them. Those work things...
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