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On Board: The Insider's Guide to Surviving Life in the Boardroom de John Tusa

On Board: The Insider's Guide to Surviving Life in the Boardroom

Autor John Tusa
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 oct 2021

Ușile grele de stejar se închid, lăsând în urmă freamătul instituției; înăuntru, în liniștea tensionată a sălii de consiliu, se decide viitorul unui muzeu național sau al unei corporații media. Descoperim aici că perspectiva unică a lui John Tusa nu este cea a unui teoretician, ci a unui veteran care a navigat furtunile de la British Museum și BBC World Service. Reținem un moment critic descris cu precizie cinematică: punctul în care disputele personale și orgoliile membrilor amenință să deraieze o întreagă strategie organizațională.

On Board transformă aceste experiențe în lecții de supraviețuire. Ca și The Art and Psychology of Board Relationships de Joy Harcup, această biografie transformă documentele și procesele-verbale sterile în narațiune vie, punând accent pe dinamica umană care stă la baza succesului instituțional. Merită menționat că autorul nu se ferește să expună eșecurile, oferind cititorului un rol de observator discret la momente de criză financiară și numiri controversate.

În contextul operei sale, On Board reprezintă o evoluție firească. Dacă în Bright Sparks autorul analiza inovația sub presiune, iar în Pain in the Arts explora bătăliile politice ale lumii culturale, volumul de față sintetizează aceste teme într-un manual de etică și eficiență. Ritmul este alert, alternând între anecdote savuroase și sfaturi pragmatice despre cum să lucrezi colaborativ fără a-ți compromite integritatea. Este o incursiune onestă în mecanismele puterii, scrisă de un om care a fost, pe rând, confesor, polițist și strateg la cel mai înalt nivel.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472976024
ISBN-10: 1472976029
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Business
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricărui profesionist care aspiră la o funcție de conducere sau care activează deja în comitete de decizie. John Tusa oferă un amestec rar de memorii captivante și îndrumări practice, învățându-vă cum să gestionați personalitățile dificile și cum să mențineți direcția unei organizații în perioade de haos. Este un câștig real pentru cine dorește să înțeleagă realitatea brută din spatele ușilor închise ale puterii.

Despre autor

John Tusa este un reputat jurnalist britanic, administrator cultural și scriitor. A fost director general al BBC World Service și al Barbican Arts Centre, precum și prezentator al emisiunii Newsnight de la BBC. De-a lungul unei cariere de peste 30 de ani, a condus unele dintre cele mai importante instituții culturale britanice. Alături de soția sa, Ann Tusa, a scris lucrări istorice de referință precum The Nuremberg Trial. Expertiza sa vastă în managementul artelor și jurnalism îi conferă o autoritate incontestabilă în analiza structurilor de guvernanță și a leadershipului organizațional.

Descriere

"In equal parts a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes of some of our best-loved institutions and a guide on how governing boards should work" - HRDirector

Throughout the world, thousands of people give their time, skill and energy to serving on a board. From local councils to international corporations - boards play a critical role in the running and success of any organisation, large and small.

In On Board John Tusa brings us behind the closed doors of the boardroom to provide an insight into the inner-working of boards. From personal squabbles to financial crises, Tusa shares his experiences serving on a wide variety of international boards such as the British Museum and American Public Radio. These lively life-stories unveil how boards overcome deep-set divisions, appoint new members and survive in times of chaos.

Through these stories, Tusa provides lessons and tips on how to effectively operate in cooperative business environments. Tusa teaches the reader how to overcome the big egos and how to work collaboratively yet effectively. On Board is not only an engaging foray into the vibrant career of John Tusa - it is also a comprehensive guide to anyone who struggles to work on boards or committees - or in any cooperative environment.

Caracteristici

The sample tales and case studies will lend themselves to op-ed pieces on the successes and failures of corporate boards, which John would be able to write.

Notă biografică

John Tusa's distinguished and varied career as a broadcaster and journalist has included a long association with BBC's flagship 'Newsnight' as well as broadcasting with Radio 4's 'The World Tonight'. He is well-known to the British public as presenter in the 90s of BBC TV's 'One O'Clock News'. As Managing Director of the BBC External Services, he set up BBC World Service Television. He is also a writer whose books include 'Art Matters: Reflections on Culture' and 'On Creativity'.

Recenzii

'On Board' is a serious story lightly told, with numerous hints and tips along the way on how boards behave and how they should. Every board member should read it... and learn.
John Tusa is one of the bravest and most thoughtful public servants of a generation, and one of the people I admire most in British public life.
John Tusa deals with the great and seldom asked questions: why do chairs and chief executives not get on? Why do boards make the wrong appointments? What does a great board look like? His answers - based on huge experience - are vital reading for chairs and trustees everywhere. This is a book on an important subject full of insight and interest: essential reading!
Part primer, part memoir, part history, laced with psychology and social anthropology, On Board is an arresting and enlightening survival guide for anyone who aspires to sit on a not-for-profit board. It makes an eloquent case for the public value of the independent and good governance of our intellectual and cultural institutions - and the inherent obstacles to achieving it. John Tusa's case studies, from the many distinguished boards on which he has served and chaired, provide a serious and authoritative analysis of the tenets of institutional governance. This is also a riveting and, at times, excruciatingly candid account of personal learning painfully acquired in what he describes as one of "the most demanding complex and taxing activities in the world of public life". On Board charts the perilous navigation between the Scylla and Charybdis of personal rivalries and collective prevarication on which so many boards can come to grief. Anyone who has served as a Trustee will recognise his description of boards' capacities for resilience and dysfunctionality, and, at their centre, the delicate chemistry of the CEO/Chair relationship. Anyone asked to join such a board will be well advised to learn from Tusa how codes, management theory and mission statements cannot substitute for decency, humanity and rigour, so much more difficult to achieve than to proscribe. In the end, good governance depends on good behaviour.
For anyone considering joining a board, especially one in the arts, this is an excellent guide for what awaits them. It gives a clear sense of how the complex issues and relationships are handled from someone who was there, and lessons in good governance have rarely been so fluently expressed. And for those interested in many leading characters of the London arts scene over the past 20 years, this is a hugely entertaining read.
With outstanding insight, John weaves his way elegantly through misunderstandings, personal ambition, indecision, and incompetence to illustrate with clarity, the consequences of flawed Chairmanship, board composition, mistaken beliefs, and finally the privilege and honour of being part of a Board that gets it right.
One of the truly great and good, John Tusa has led many of Britain's cultural institutions and led them brilliantly. This book explains, modestly but straight-forwardly, how he has dealt with boards of trustees as helmsman, nanny, confessor, policeman, plotter, and Scout leader. Necessary reading for anyone involved in schools, arts organisations or other non-profits.