The Opposite of Strategy
The London Free Press recently published a summary of Western’s new draft strategic plan (there’s a longer version on Western’s website, but it’s password protected). I urge you to read it. It’s not uniquely bad by any means – there are lots of other institutions who have published similar sorts of documents – but it nevertheless represents a kind of quintessence of what’s wrong with university strategic plans. It is a Stepford Wife of a strategy. Nothing about it says, “Western”. You







