{"id":22269,"date":"2025-08-24T09:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T06:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eub.edu.bh\/blog-post\/what-mclaren-taught-me-about-leading-a-university\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T13:01:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T10:01:24","slug":"what-mclaren-taught-me-about-leading-a-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eub.edu.bh\/ar\/blog-post\/what-mclaren-taught-me-about-leading-a-university\/","title":{"rendered":"What McLaren Taught Me About Leading a University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As a McLaren supporter, watching this season has been a joy. But what really stayed with me was Andrea Stella\u2019s reflection on leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/f1\/news\/andrea-stella-on-leadership-and-the-most-satisfying-part-of-mclarens-f1-success\/10751132\/\">https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/f1\/news\/andrea-stella-on-leadership-and-the-most-satisfying-part-of-mclarens-f1-success\/10751132\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asked about the most satisfying part of winning, he didn\u2019t mention podiums or points. Instead, he spoke about the journey \u2014 and how every one of McLaren\u2019s 1000 people felt ownership of the achievement. \u201cThat\u2019s something I own, that\u2019s something I contributed to.\u201d<br><br>That resonates deeply with me at Euro University of Bahrain. Because leadership in higher education isn\u2019t about a single decision-maker or a headline achievement. It\u2019s about shaping the culture so that staff, faculty and students all feel part of the mission.<br><br>Like Stella\u2019s flat leadership model, we\u2019ve chosen intentional design over hierarchy. Collaboration, trust, and clarity are the drivers of our progress. When a lecturer feels their initiative matters, or when a student feels agency in shaping their education \u2014 that\u2019s when the institution begins to thrive.<br><br>The truth is simple: trophies and titles are temporary. But a culture where people own the outcome, and where success is shared across the whole community, is what lasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a McLaren supporter, watching this season has been a joy. But what really stayed with me was Andrea Stella\u2019s reflection on leadership. Asked about the most satisfying part of winning, he didn\u2019t mention podiums or points. Instead, he spoke about the journey \u2014 and how every one of McLaren\u2019s 1000 people felt ownership of the achievement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":22270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[218,176,177,178,179],"class_list":["post-22269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-presidents-blog","tag-culture","tag-education","tag-leadership","tag-learning","tag-management"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eub.edu.bh\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eub.edu.bh\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eub.edu.bh\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eub.edu.bh\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eub.edu.bh\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eub.edu.bh\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22396,"href":"https:\/\/eub.edu.bh\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22269\/revisions\/22396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eub.edu.bh\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eub.edu.bh\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eub.edu.bh\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eub.edu.bh\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}