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My profession in general (hereinafter MPIG) hasn’t quite figured out what to do with its young professionals. It wants to harness our creativity, expertise, and energy, but isn’t quite ready to entrust us with actual decisions. Thus, lower-middle managers in MPIG who would like to effect a change are often invited to “make a proposal” and/or “lead a task force” that will take their organizations forward.

… as long as autonomy remains the exclusive province of upper management, we can look forward to an entire generation of academic library leaders without any substantive leadership experience. But man, we’ll be able to write kickass proposals.