"Strategic governance:" the wrong questions?

This review essay discusses the conclusions of Strategic Governance about strategizing, planning, and governing in higher education. The study of joint big decision committees reported in this book is carefully and thoroughly reported, but its conclusion that strategy and legitimate governance are in tension with one another may result from too narrow a conceptual starting point. The review essay concludes that a wider range of adaptions than formal strategic planning may serve higher education well in a time of great external challenges.