"Decisions arrive without clear rationale. Restructures are announced before the evidence that triggered them has been shared. Policies are reversed before they have been embedded. Courses are closed or launched with speed."
Natalia Cecire
'Strategic plans have become so expansive and aspirational that they cease to guide choices. When almost every goal, value and aspiration is declared a priority, the plan cannot resolve the inevitable conflicts that real resource allocation involves.
This is not a trivial failure.'
A decade of shocks has left higher education working conditions feeling like one firefight after another. For Doug Specht, leadership decision-making must recover some degree of strategic calm A decad...
