Open Leadership for a Vibrant Future

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Embracing Open LeadershipOpen access is a growing movement that promises to transform universities, libraries, and other academic institutions by making scholarly research freely available to the public, without restrictions.In the spirit of open access, it makes sense to also focus on open leadership.Transparent, inclusive, and accessible leaders exemplify the open leadership approach.Perhaps the opposite of the smoke-filled rooms, exclusive clubs, the glass ceiling firmly fastened, or a narrow fast lane, open leadership provides avenues for broad input and participation into decision making.Open leadership, like open access, provides a key to new discoveries and understandings in the process of knowledge creation.Open leadership reveals new and effective road maps for successful decision-making.People working in this mode have access to a deeper, broader, and more diverse base of expertise.Open leadership leverages brain power to address a multitude of challenges.Open leadership is sustainable, empathetic, and the right thing to do.