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Leadership and Your Strategic Plan

vcsupernova
Feb 13
1 min read

Leadership is not writing the strategic plan. Leadership is using it.


Too many library strategic plans are thoughtful, community-informed, and beautifully designed — and then quietly set aside.


Real leadership shows up after board adoption.


It looks like:

• Referencing the plan in board discussions

• Using it to guide budget decisions

• Aligning director goals with strategic priorities

• Saying “no” to projects that don’t move the plan forward


In New York State libraries especially, strategic planning isn’t just a compliance exercise or a funding document. It’s a governance tool.


A strategic plan should reduce ambiguity, not create more of it.


If your plan isn’t guiding decisions, it isn’t leading.


Leadership is what happens after the plan is adopted.

 
 
 

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