Why Thought Partnership Is Not a Luxury in Higher Education Right Now

This is Part 2 in a series on strategy, planning, and organizational design in higher education. Strategy vs. Strategic Planning: Why Winning Requires Deliberate Choice establishes the distinction between strategy and planning th...

Killing Sacred Cows — Part 3 of a series examining the unspoken norms, taboos, and protected assumptions in academic research that are rarely questioned, even when they undermine effectiveness and resilience. This series names those assumptions, puts them up for debate, and asks whether they still d...

Killing Sacred Cows is a series examining the unspoken norms, taboos, and protected assumptions in academic research that are rarely questioned, even when they undermine effectiveness and resilience. This series names those assumptions, puts them up for debate, and asks whether they still deserve pr...

This is the first in a series examining structures and assumptions in academic research that have gone unquestioned long enough to feel permanent. The last several years have stress-tested a lot of them. Some didn't hold. This one is worth naming directly.

I want to be clear up front: this is not a...