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Douglas Board (@BoardWryter) is a writer and thinker on leadership, and an executive and career coach. Previously he was for eighteen years a senior headhunter (executive search consultant). His 2021 book ELITES: CAN YOU RISE TO THE TOP WITHOUT LOSING YOUR SOUL? has been described by the Financial Times as 'profound ... sharp and often very funny'. ELITES lifts the lid on what happens at the top of meritocracies: why they produce glass ceilings; how senior executives can navigate them; and how we can change the system. His earlier non-fiction work includes two applied research books, CHOOSING LEADERS AND CHOOSING TO LEAD (2012) and, with Robert Warwick, THE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF LEADERSHIP AND KNOWLEDGE (2013). His articles have appeared in the Financial Times and Times Higher Education. Douglas also explores leadership and social circles of power through satirical fiction. His novels MBA (2015) and TIME OF LIES (2017) take apart the fantasies of business tycoons and post-truth politicians. The novelette THE RATS: A WHITE HOUSE SATIRE (2018) imagined poetic justice for the then occupant of the White House. He is an honorary senior visiting fellow at the business school of City, University of London. In 2019 he became one of the five non-lawyer members of the Queen's Counsel Selection Panel, which awards the highest distinction for legal advocacy in England and Wales. Previously he was treasurer of the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund and chair of the British Refugee Council. He is a graduate of Cambridge and Harvard Universities and in 2010 received a doctorate in the selection of people for senior roles from the University of Hertfordshire. Find more writing, interviews and talks at www.douglasboard.com. You can invite Douglas to talk to your group from there (see 'lunchbox Douglas'). '[ELITES] is as much a work of social philosophy as it is a business book — an examination of meritocracy, meaning and the “magic tricks” by which a small group sustains itself at the pinnacle of society.' Financial Times 'TIME OF LIES is my book of the moment: Douglas Board is a truly talented satirist and has our Brexit era nailed.' Matthew d'Ancona, columnist, Guardian and Evening Standard. 'MBA is a must-read for anyone who enjoyed Franzen's FREEDOM or Eggers' THE CIRCLE.' Felicity Wood, The Bookseller
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    • Can You Rise to the Top Without Losing Your Soul?
    • Written by: Douglas Board
    • Narrated by: Douglas Board
    • Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 2021-02-25
    • Language: English
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