Ant Colonies and the Art of Managing Universities
One of the problems in being a university manager is this assumption that being in charge of all or part of an organization means you actually have some control over what goes on inside it. But this is not, in fact, true, or at least not in the way that anyone outside academia would understand the word “control”. This is because individual universities are basically ants. Individual biological entities? Certainly. But more importantly, they are part of a larger colony







