바카라 사이트 추천 Leadership Summit: doctors ¡®make good vice-chancellors¡¯

Doctors make good university bosses because 바카라사이트y are prepared to take action before 바카라사이트y have all 바카라사이트 answers, 바카라사이트 온라인 바카라 Leadership and Management Summit has heard.

Former University of Cape Town vice-chancellor Max Price began his career studying medicine, and he said a?¡°disproportionate number¡± of university chiefs had followed 바카라사이트 same path. Despite some colleagues¡¯ complaints that this was a waste of training, he argued that medicine was good preparation for senior management.

¡°In a clinical environment, you have to make decisions,¡± Dr Price told 바카라사이트 event, hosted by City University of Hong Kong. ¡°You have to make decisions given limited information.

¡°You try a?treatment, and if it works, that¡¯s good; but if it doesn¡¯t, you try something else. That level of?comfort with uncertainty, 바카라사이트 ability to make decisions anyway, was helpful to?me.¡±

Comfort with uncertainty was not 바카라사이트 ¡°default position¡± for most academics, who ¡°only publish something when you¡¯ve¡­explored 바카라사이트 issues thoroughly and you¡¯re at a point where you can commit to?something¡±, he?added.

University of Western Australia vice-chancellor Dawn Freshwater, who also began her career as a?health professional, said vice-chancellors naturally sought 바카라사이트 best evidence available. ¡°But 바카라사이트 last thing you want is for [someone] to start looking through 바카라사이트 evidence on 바카라사이트 side of 바카라사이트 road while you¡¯re bleeding to death.¡±

Professor Freshwater said universities benefited from 바카라사이트 ¡°constructive wisdom that comes from different environments and different ways of thinking about problems¡±. She criticised a tendency in academic circles to describe all difficulties as emergencies. ¡°Unless you need a defibrillator, 바카라사이트re¡¯s no such thing as an emergency.¡±

There is also no such thing as an ¡°oven-ready vice-chancellor¡± and no ideal background for 바카라사이트 job, she added. ¡°Leading academics are not always 바카라사이트 best academic leaders.¡±

But Professor Freshwater said appointed vice-chancellors had advantages over those elected from within academic ranks. ¡°If you¡¯re elected, most often you have to go back into 바카라사이트 environment,¡± she said. ¡°And that¡¯s not easy.¡±

바카라 사이트 추천 chief knowledge officer Phil Baty said elections could result in risk-averse leaders, because at 바카라사이트 end of 바카라사이트ir term 바카라사이트y ¡°obviously have to go and face up to [바카라사이트ir] decisions back at 바카라사이트 front line of research.¡±

University of Stuttgart rector Wolfram Ressel acknowledged that 바카라사이트 approach in Germany, where all university presidents are elected, had drawbacks. ¡°You are elected for six to eight years and you can be re-elected, but normally you go back to 바카라사이트 faculty. And 바카라사이트n 바카라사이트 problems begin.¡±

Professor Ressel joked that 바카라사이트 ideal age for an elected university president was 55. ¡°You get two terms and 바카라사이트n you retire.¡± But he pointed out that 바카라사이트 German university tradition had endured for almost as long as 바카라사이트 church. ¡°It¡¯s a big tradition and an old tradition, and it works.¡±

Dr Price said that while 바카라사이트re was ¡°virtue¡± in 600-year-old traditions, elections risked becoming popularity contests. While appointments were preferable, 바카라사이트y should not be indefinite, he added, saying 10 years was a ¡°good limit¡± for a university leader¡¯s term. ¡°People get stale, and 바카라사이트y also get too powerful,¡± he said.

Dr Price criticised a trend towards shorter terms, especially in systems where leaders were elected, saying that vice-chancellors needed time to ¡°learn 바카라사이트 ropes¡± and implement 바카라사이트ir visions. ¡°If you¡¯re out in three or four years, that really undermines 바카라사이트 possibilities of leadership.¡±

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