Saturday, February 10, 2007

A Turning Tide?

I'm not going to comment directly on the news that Harvard appears to have chosen a woman as its next president following the turbulent tenure of Lawrence Summers, except to say woo hoo!

However, I did come across this quote in a New York Times aticle about Harvard's presidential search: "Dr. Chait, who studies university management, noted that in several recent changes of leadership of major American corporations, tough, even bullying leaders were replaced by more mild-mannered consensus builders."

Hmmmm.....sounds like a capital idea! Where, oh where, could we put this idea into practice?
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