Elites by Douglas Board

Elites by Douglas Board

Across the world, key decisions are made by tiny coteries of political and business leaders. With enough talent, elan and hard work, any of us can join them - so we are told. Follow key rules: be transparent; defer to bosses and clients; take responsibility; feedback is everything. Understand these and the world is our oyster. But is it? Decades of working with leaders have shown headhunter, executive coach and former NGO chair Douglas Board that it may not be. Many would-be leaders and senior managers fall into traps which block their rise and undermine their self-esteem. Elites outlines those traps and shows how best to avoid them. Armed with this knowledge, you may want to use it and join the top tier. However, it may also make you reconsider. Knowing how elites work, do you still want to join them? Or can you find ways to change them? In this authoritative, ground-breaking guide, Board suggests that true fulfilment demands an adventure into the unknown inside ourselves: why do we seek what we seek? Prepared to be surprised.

'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

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. He is the author of two applied research books on leadership, which was the subject of his doctorate, as well as two satirical novels.

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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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