Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
Date of this Version
2006
Document Type
Article
Citation
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development (2006) 24
doi: 10.3998/tia.17063888.0024.007
Abstract
Strategic planning is a good idea that gets a bad name from dubious efforts carrying the title. Much of this rap comes from half-hearted exercises, but some of it comes from efforts that founder due to faulty or limited conceptions of how the future “works.” Chaos theory is an alternative approach and metaphor with potential to let us see the future and its dynamics in new ways. Cognizance of chaos’s nature and underlying structure might help us do planning in new, nonintuitive, and more successful ways.
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