MBA - Couverture souple

Board, Douglas

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ISBN 10 : 1785630059 ISBN 13 : 9781785630057

Editeur : Lightning Books, 2015

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A must read for anyone who enjoyed Franzen's Freedom or Eggers The Circle. MBA challenges and amuses with equal measure and makes you wonder about the impact of the Anglo-American dream. --Felicity Wood, Deputy Features Editor, The Bookseller

Given their role in shaping and propagating the ideas that govern all our working lives, business schools have for the most part unjustly escaped the attentions of fiction writers. All the more refreshing, then, to read Douglas Board's wonderfully enjoyable dissection of the swirling currents of ambition, dissembling, power and fortune that are all too often rationalised away in textbook accounts of leadership . Witty and deeply informed, Board's rich satire is nearer the bone of business than a lot of people would want you to think. --Simon Caulkin, management writer in Management Today, Financial Times Business Education and at simoncaulkin.com

When, in the first chapter, Ben the CEO's executive assistant is asked to stand in for the CEO in the difficult task of firing Ben, I knew I had found a winning piece of writing. Board brings years of deep business experience and breathtaking wit to a La Cage aux Folles-like storyline where a cast of capricious characters comically converge in a crazed climax. MBA is a light, rompy read that never lets the reader go longer than a paragraph without a smile ... and more often, a guffaw. --John C Beck, president of North Star Leadership Group and author of Good vs Good, Japan s Business Renaissance and The Attention Economy. Beck has taught at business schools around the world including Thunderbird, IMD, Harvard, Lee Kuan Yew and Globis

Biographie de l'auteur :

Douglas Board is co-head of Coachmatch Career Management and an honorary senior visiting fellow at Cass Business School, City University London. After growing up in Hong Kong and receiving degrees from Cambridge and Harvard, he worked for the UK Treasury and then as a headhunter. In 2010 he received a doctorate on how leaders are selected. He was treasurer of the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund and chair of the British Refugee Council. He is married to Tricia Sibbons; they live in London and Johannesburg. Douglas is also the author of Choosing Leaders and Choosing to Lead: Science, Politics and Intuition in Executive Selection (Gower 2012) and (with Robert Warwick) The Social Development of Leadership and Knowledge: A Reflexive Inquiry into Research and Practice (Palgrave Macmillan 2013).

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