{"id":285,"date":"2018-01-18T16:38:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T16:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=285"},"modified":"2018-01-18T17:21:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T17:21:55","slug":"letters-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/01\/18\/letters-6\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">Dear subtext,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">Leadership is a worthless, dangerous concept, in your account of UA92 and its focus thereon. I presume, therefore, subtext welcomes the reorganization\/merging of the Department of Leadership and Management in the management school that it has previously bemoaned. As for personal development not being worth of a university programme, it indeed wouldn&#8217;t be if it accorded to the banal stereotypes in your criticism of the UA92 ethos. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">However, Lancaster has for a long time led the world in the provision of intellectually rigorous degrees which have at the core the principle that the personal development they offer inevitably requires a deep understanding of the social and political structures and processes within which the individual exists and operates. Lancaster is a lead partner in the International Masters in Practicing Management, along with Universities in Japan, Brazil, India and Canada; and its MBA, certainly while I was there, led the world in its development of the concept of managerial mindfulness, integrating this with both the usual business disciplines, and a deep understanding of sustainability and ethics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">OK, I left Lancaster for York. My underlying interest is that I live in Manchester, a great city, but still characterized by inequality and social exclusion. Manchester lost a University, UMIST, on its merger with the Victoria University of Manchester. That merger was a mistake, and a path Lancaster did well to avoid with Liverpool. Particularly with the downsizing of Manchester Business School, and Manchester&#8217;s humanities departments, there is a civic gap in the city where another university should be. UA92 might fill that gap. How it does so is up to you guys. But my hope as a Mancunian is that it does what it says it will about leadership and self development, but with the imagination and rigor that already characterize Lancaster.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">Professor Bill Cooke<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">*****************************************************<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">Dear subtext,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">Did you know the total amount of money the library received from the payment of overdue items (excluding costs of replacing lost book as far as I can gather) was \u00a314,541.95 for the period 7 October 2016 (start of term) to 6 October 2017. Wonder where that went! What do we think of that&#8230; certainly not a drop in the ocean.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">See freedom of information link for a little more: https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ycbem68u<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">All the best<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">Alison Clifton<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear subtext, Leadership is a worthless, dangerous concept, in your account of UA92 and its focus thereon. I presume, therefore, subtext welcomes the reorganization\/merging of the Department of Leadership and Management in the management school that it has previously bemoaned. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/01\/18\/letters-6\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"LETTERS","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[53,202,172,180,54],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","tag-football-university","tag-issue-171","tag-leadership","tag-library","tag-ua92"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99sHo-4B","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":266,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2017\/12\/07\/never-mind-the-quality-feel-the-leadership\/","url_meta":{"origin":285,"position":0},"title":"NEVER MIND THE QUALITY, FEEL THE LEADERSHIP!","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"December 7 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"As we draw nearer to the Xmas break this is the time when stories emerge to guide us through the shambles in which we find ourselves. 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