Dear Phil and fellow lurkers,
Thanks for bringing this one to my attention.
I checked with a person I know, a person in fact we all know.
Clarke Kent tells me he is happy at the daily planet, and is not currently
considering a change of career. So we may have to look elsewhere.
However, isn't the issue Phil raises symptomatic of the higher education
culture more broadly? Leadership is an expectation. The capacity to move
and engage people in areas for which they feel poorly prepared and fearful,
well that's a given.
It seems to me that the question becomes - how do we move people,
administrators and administrations towards a recognition of the scope and
bounds of the challenge? Then, in a managerial culture, how do we give
people the latitude necessary to truly innovate in the leadership and
strategic roles - that Clarke Kent politely declined?
Warmest regards
Noel
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Faculty of Business
University of Tasmania
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