Elites by Douglas Board
Douglas Board was hot-housed from an early age to be a member of the elite: the tiny coterie of people who run organizations, professions, interest groups, communities, and, at the highest level, countries. The training worked, and he has been chair of a household-name charity, treasurer of another, and deputy chair of a board-level consultancy. Elites are also his specialist subject: he has a doctorate in selection for senior roles and, as a head-hunter and executive coach, he has spent three decades recruiting and mentoring new members of the top tier. In this revelatory book - part how-to guide, part detective story of ideas - he analyses 10 traps which hold back those on the upper rungs of the ladder from making it to the top and undermine their self-esteem. He also asks whether that final push to the top is worth it. Writing passionately from his own experience, Board argues that success in the fullest sense isn't about winning the most glittering material prizes. For him, true fulfillment demands an adventure into the unknown inside ourselves: why do we seek what we seek? The answers can be surprising.
'Interesting, profound, serious, subversive, often very funny' - Financial Times, 'You might expect Elites to be a simple guide to how to make it or a description of the traits and characteristics of those at the topInstead, it is something much more interesting and controversial' - Forbes, 'Essentially about the ethics of power, Elites is written from the heart. I loved it' - Christina Patterson, 'Quite fascinating...a really refreshing book, written really differently to most books of this kind' - Bobby Kerr, Newstalk, 'This book couldn't be more timely. It explains how the barely competent but entitled occupy elite positions in our organisations and in society in general' - Gareth Jones
Born in Hong Kong, Douglas Board has degrees from Cambridge and Harvard and worked for the UK Treasury and then as a headhunter. He has also had a distinguished career in public life, serving as treasurer of the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund and chairing the British Refugee Council. He is currently a senior visiting fellow at the Cass Business School in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781785632228 |
| ISBN 10 | 1785632221 |
| Title | Elites |
| Author | Douglas Board |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Eye Books |
| Year published | 2021-03-29 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
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