Written by Dr. Melik Peter Khoury
What They Don’t Tell You About Going First
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes with being early. Not the exhaustion of working hard, though that is part of it. It is the exhaustion of being right before the world is ready to acknowledge it, of carrying the weight of a vision that has not yet proven itself to the skeptics in the room.
I have been an early adopter in higher education for over a decade. I have implemented new governance models, grown enrollment 15X, grown operational cash reserves 20X, bespoke AI systems, modular credentials, and operational models that most institutions are only now beginning to discuss. But the lessons I have learned going first are not unique to education. They belong to anyone who has ever made a bold call before the crowd was ready to follow.
Here is what the contract of going first actually contains…
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