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Empirical evidence and our own experiences are critical to understanding what our practice actually is and what it needs to be successful, but they are in a constant state of tension with what people who hold the purse strings - directly or indirectly - believe about writing pedagogy. Popular narratives built around the myth of transience are an external threat to our mission. Short term, easy solutions also create opportunities for profit making that don't always align with what is needed to help students thrive.

Society has become more hollow. We can have anything we want delivered to us with just a few clicks. We can even swipe away human beings on dating apps if we want. No need to think or give attention beyond superficiality. It's too hard to have deeper connection, and so the typical response has become to run away in fear: from that paper and building that reference list, from using search strings, from going to the store in person, even from getting to know who a person is on the inside and staying with them even when they are hard to understand.

I will go as so far as to say that genuinely loving things is becoming lost. Who wants to pay special attention to one thing at a time anymore?

Over time, path dependencies form in some areas of life and bleed into others. People become accustomed to taking the path of least resistance in all that they do. They don't think critically about how their own behaviour and lack of attention affects others because it becomes acceptable to only think about yourself.

Instant gratification becomes normalised and people just take without giving. They take from AI and don't give their heart to their paper or anything else.

It is sad.

DuBrin, A. (2018). Leadership: Research findings, practice, and skills (9th ed.). Cenage Learning.

The text offers insights into the thinking of leaders in various organisational contexts and offers a wealth of information on numerous topics, including but not limited to:

Influence tactics of leaders.

Methods for motivating and coaching employees.

Communication and conflict resolution methods.

"Strategic" leadership and the management of knowledge (i.e., compartmentalization, perhaps relevant to the centralisation and lack of transparency discussions had here).

This resource is full of much terminology like LMX and other terms and offers vivid descriptions of what might influence organisational function at both upper and lower levels.