In today’s complex and interconnected world, we are presented with unprecedented opportunities and challenges. We’re required to rethink many of our institutions and routines, including higher education. Technological advancements promise both to free us to fulfil our full potential and to put us out of a job. Meanwhile, wellbeing is being recognised as contributing significantly to our ability to develop resilient graduates.
For me, people engage in three types of labour: physical, cognitive and emotional. With automation progressively taking over the physical and cognitive domains of labour, humans are still the masters of the emotional domain. The question is, how much are we investing in further developing our emotional resilience? Increasingly, being emotionally intelligent and having good social skills are trumping technical skills when it comes to success at leadership levels.
Mushtak Al Atabi
CEO and Provost of Heriot-Watt University Malaysia
As we continue to work on our Strategy2025 conversation, it would be great if you could help us by answering these questions.