The new millennium is an exciting time for research in general and science in particular. The dawn of the new millennium is an excellent time for organizations to take stock of their goals, resources and impacts. Institutions must be able to move as quickly as possible.
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.