<p>Interesting article right [url=<a href="http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=4&theme=&usrsess=1&id=71655%5Dhere%5B/url">http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=4&theme=&usrsess=1&id=71655]here[/url</a>]</p>
<p>That is an interesting take on it. I've grown tired of people berating him for suggesting a logical conclusion to an obvious trend.</p>
<p>yeah</p>
<p>politically incorrect- yes
completely inaccurate?- no</p>
<p>Boston Globe:</p>
<p>''There are presidents who try to lead with fear," former Harvard president Derek Bok says in Richard Bradley's new book, ''Harvard Rules." ''They are very tough, and they push their powers to the limit. And there are presidents who try to lead in other ways, by winning the respect and even the affection of the faculty."</p>
<p>Bok, who led Harvard for 20 years, says in the book his remarks are not intended to be interpreted as being about any particular president, but they seem very apt at the moment.</p>
<p>''A lot depends on this intangible relationship you have with the faculty," he says. ''If you can't at least persuade yourself that you have some reasonable amount of respectful attention from them, the job for anybody -- any satisfaction they get from the job -- is seriously impaired. Of course, you're the president for all the constituencies of the university, but especially for the faculty. You're one of them. You're killing yourself to make this a better place for them. And then they run around and say, 'You're a trivial person. I don't believe what you say. That windbag.' It takes the guts out of you. If they don't have respect for you, if they don't trust you, that's fatal."</p>
<p>I hope it is not fatal. But Harvard can't simply hunker down and tough it out. There are alternatives, even to Harvard: The people who come to Harvard to teach and the people who come to learn are among the best and the brightest. They are among the most mobile people on the planet.</p>
<p>Summers can try to run the place like a top-down chief executive. But Harvard also needs a board that's up to the job of the 21st century. Harvard's president just lost an astounding vote of confidence by the faculty. Would its board have fared any better?"</p>
<p>Those are some pretty funny anecdotes.</p>