James Drogan

Of late I have been commenting on change in the world; accelerating at an increasing rate, complex, and often opaque.  How does one survive, let alone thrive and ultimately change the game played in this environment?  In 2003 I wrote a small bit, Forces, that considered these questions.

The hypothesis is that the human requires new capabilities (i.e., knowledge, skills, experience, and attitudes) if the comment on change is correct and one is to survive and thrive in the emergent world.

Related to this comes Transient Advantage (McGrath, R. G. (2013). Transient Advantage. Harvard Business Review, 62–70) echoing, in many ways, the observation of Charles Darwin that, “It's not the strongest who survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most adaptable to change.”

I'm in the  higher education business with the mission to "...prepare graduates for the external environment.  The effectiveness of the program is the degree to which successful completion has prepared the graduates for their chosen career as measured by their uptake by industry."  As the external environment changes, higher education must change or risk Darwinism.