Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Acting rather than reacting
The overall message I take away from the readings so far is that WCs can not wait to react to what they may perceive as administrative whims, and there are many steps a director can take to be proactive in managing the center. Perhaps that's why I like Mullin et al's takeaway of the "intrapreneur." It seems like a conclusion based on observable patterns from different types of WC locations, and includes results that both support and endanger the WC, its personnel or services. This is also one of the better explanations I've read of chaos theory in that it's brief but clear.
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I find it interesting that these WCDs turned administrators spend so much time arguing that administrators do not work from whims. I feel like they are talking to their previous selves as much as readers now.
Just as not everyone has an entrepreneurial spirit or personality possibly not everyone has an intrapreneurial spirit or personality as well. Mullin et al writes: "writing center intrapreneurs are effective only in proportion to their ability to work both within and outside of the traditional university paradigm, to live in chaos and manage conflict amidst snail-like university processes, and to position themselves wisely and well within the organization, ready to change their positionality as the context demands. This may mean changing our personal allegiances to traditional organizational pardigms" (227). Can one learn to be this way?
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