Universities have great stability and a long and honorable history. These select universities will obtain almost all the competitive federal funding. Andrew Grove, CEO of Intel Corporation, has written the book, Only the Paranoid Survive , to which I return in a few minutes. Only those universities which are flexible in their approach and which have clear goals and expectations will do well and even have the chance of being among Crow's 75 universities. There is a key concept of strategic intent, taken from the book Competing for the Future .
Strategic intent has the attributes of direction, discovery and destiny.
Thus numerical goals are less energizing to employees than goals such as being the best in defined competitive areas. Strategic intent goes beyond strategic planning. Strategic intent goes beyond the feasible to what is barely possible, e.g., JFK's vision of our landing on the moon. Contact the Research Web Administrator with questions or comments about this page.