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What kind of leadership does change management need?

Abstract.

This research project shows – or rather confirms – that leading deliberate large-scale change projects to success requires a certain kind of leadership. This takes into consideration not only the leader’s own team members but also members of other teams and staff working in other departments of the library as well as their superiors. This leadership takes the anxieties and concerns of all those members of staff into account through interaction and participation, as well as through the leader’s reliability.At the end of this chapter a modern leadership style is introduced, the result of growing into this position through an expanding team as a consequence of ongoing changes in ...

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