News & Record publishes Noer column on “five truths” leaders must accept

DavidNoer, the Frank S.Holt Jr. Professor of Business Leadership at Elon, had a columnpublished July 13, 2008, in the (Greensboro, N.C.) News &Record. The column, “Change is inexorable: How will we respond?” posed “five truths that must be faced” by politicians running for office this fall.

1.) The era of cheap energy is gone
2.) Travel is no longer easy or fun
3.) Subjectivity and ‘feel-good’ standards have undermined our educational systems
4.) American influence is waning
5.) Our culture is out of sync

“Although it may not help them get elected, our regional, state andnational leaders need the courage not to delude either themselves or uswith fuzzy, shallow notions of things they will ‘change,'” Noer writes. “They need toaccept the inexorable paradigmatic shifts facing our world and findways to respond to them.”

To read the full column, click on the link to the upper right.