On Management #37, Minimum Viable Passion with Fobazi Ettarh by Anne Libby

This time, I’m joined by Fobazi Ettarh. She’s the Undergraduate Success Librarian at Rutgers University-Newark. She specializes in information literacy instruction, K-12 pedagogy, and co-curricular outreach, and her research interests include equity, diversity, and inclusion in librarianship, and the ways in which societal expectations and infrastructures privilege and/or marginalize certain groups.

Fobazi has a lot to share about her current focus, a concept she coined and defined called vocational awe, and we'll talk about her work in this area, mission-driven organizations, and what it really means -- and should mean -- to "change the world." Vocational awe is just as applicable to tech startups as it is to librarianship. And to any profession or organization that claims to have a mission.

This conversation has been edited for both length and clarity.

You'l find more of Fobazi's work at https://fobaziettarh.wordpress.com/

Issue #37 of the newsletter is at https://people.substack.com/p/minimum-viable-passion-on-managment.