In your youth, you were a director, a theatrical director. And most of us think of the director as the person who tells the actors what to say,. where to stand and how to sav the lines. You've found out it's more interesting and complicated than that. Being a theatre director has created the greatest preparation i can imagine to be a college president. But having values, commitment, sense of what it means to educate people is also important.
When we see Michaelangelo's David or the design of the Apple Store, we assume a genius with a predetermined vision was the key to the outcome. Yet as Lorne Buchman, author of Make to Know, tells EconTalk's Russ Roberts, great art is more about embracing the process of exploration and the results that emerge in the process of creating. Buchman makes the case for embracing uncertainty in both leadership and life.