Ten management problems for chairs of small departments in small colleges are discussed, along with problem-solving strategies for these administrators. Serious disagreements within a small and intimate department may create a country club culture in which differences are smoothed over and the personal idiosyncrasies of individual members are accommodated in some way. The rotation of chairpersons at 2- or 3-year intervals and the expectation that the leader will soon be returned to the ranks combine with the country club atmosphere to stifle creative leadership. Additional problems are: town hall decision-making; the intrusion of faculty from other disciplines into departmental faculty evaluations and curriculum development; lack of support staff and usually a limited database of institutional research; intense pressures to please students in order to maintain high course enrollments; the informality of most decision-making processes; the difficulty of building relatively standard curricula around the skills of a small number of faculty; helping faculty to keep up to date in a wide range of subjects; and aiding faculty in reaching their professional development goals and in producing salable vitas. (SW)