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The Value of Leadership in an Uncertain Age
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By Farzin Madjidi and Seta Khajarian
June 1, 2020
often, vulnerabilities of a system become apparent only after the system fails. The pandemic crisis involving the pernicious COVID-19 virus has exposed massive shortcomings in local, national, and global systems across the board. While, rightly, much attention is given to the humanitarian and medical threats of this deadly virus, an examination of leadership aspects of this challenge is well-justified. The authors offer a perspective they have gained in over 40 years of combined experience in graduate leadership education. The central premise is that leaders need a unique set of higher-level depth, wisdom, and knowledge that can best be grown and fostered through advanced graduate studies in “scholar-practitioner” focused doctoral programs.
The expansion of human knowledge has grown at an exponential rate leading to a phenomenon typically referred to as “pace of change” or “the hyperconnected world” in popular writing. The main culprit credited for these discussions is Buckminster Fuller, a 20th Century American journalist who worked as a “comprehensive anticipatory design scientist.” He is credited for one of the quotes most often used in “change” literature, the “knowledge doubling curve” from his 1982 book Critical Path. Fuller observed that “Until 1900 human knowledge doubled approximately every century. By the end of World War II knowledge was doubling every 25 years.”
More recent evidence shows this growth rate of knowledge occurs in different fields. A 2011 study in “Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association” stated that “Medical knowledge has been expanding exponentially. Whereas the doubling time was an estimated 50 years back in 1950, it accelerated to 7 years in 1980, 3.5 years in 2010, and a projected 73 days by 2020.” One recent study claimed that scientific knowledge doubles every five years
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The Value of Leadership in an Uncertain Age
Sponsored by Pepperdine University
By Farzin Madjidi and Seta Khajarian
June 1, 2020
often, vulnerabilities of a system become apparent only after the system fails. The pandemic crisis involving the pernicious COVID-19 virus has exposed massive shortcomings in local, national, and global systems across the board. While, rightly, much attention is given to the humanitarian and medical threats of this deadly virus, an examination of leadership aspects of this challenge is well-justified. The authors offer a perspective they have gained in over 40 years of combined experience in graduate leadership education. The central premise is that leaders need a unique set of higher-level depth, wisdom, and knowledge that can best be grown and fostered through advanced graduate studies in “scholar-practitioner” focused doctoral programs.
The expansion of human knowledge has grown at an exponential rate leading to a phenomenon typically referred to as “pace of change” or “the hyperconnected world” in popular writing. The main culprit credited for these discussions is Buckminster Fuller, a 20th Century American journalist who worked as a “comprehensive anticipatory design scientist.” He is credited for one of the quotes most often used in “change” literature, the “knowledge doubling curve” from his 1982 book Critical Path. Fuller observed that “Until 1900 human knowledge doubled approximately every century. By the end of World War II knowledge was doubling every 25 years.”
More recent evidence shows this growth rate of knowledge occurs in different fields. A 2011 study in “Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association” stated that “Medical knowledge has been expanding exponentially. Whereas the doubling time was an estimated 50 years back in 1950, it accelerated to 7 years in 1980, 3.5 years in 2010, and a projected 73 days by 2020.” One recent study claimed that scientific knowledge doubles every five years
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