Tag: leadership

Gender Equality

The Nobel Peace Prize’s problem with women

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize award makes it clear that the current Peace Prize Committee has a serious problem with women. In fact, they have two.

But the way the award was made this year exposes two uncomfortable realities: (1) The men who speak on behalf of the committee are ambivalent about the importance of making the award to women, and (2) the consequence of dividing the prize three ways in practice diminishes the value of each woman’s contribution.

Leadership

The virtue of weak leadership

As we try to change the culture of leadership at universities, our goal should be to create a culture of leadership where the focus is on facilitating — rather than distracting from — great teaching and great research.

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