A useful exercise for the leaders of any kind of
organization is to periodically get away from the day-to-day pressures of their
jobs for the purpose of gaining perspective. I often recommend that corporate
CEOs arrange an off-site meeting for their leadership teams once a year with no
cell phones, email, or other types of electronic devices allowed. The format of
the off-site meeting I recommend is informal and has only one agenda item. That
item is an open discussion centered on just three questions: 1) What is the
purpose of our organization? 2) Are we fulfilling our purpose? and 3) What
factors, if any, are distracting us from fulfilling our purpose? My rationale
for recommending this exercise is an immutable law of organizational behavior:
Organizations that lose sight of their purpose—their very reason for
being—eventually flounder and fail. This is precisely what is happening in
higher education today. Colleges and universities have lost sight of their
fundamental purpose.
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