Wounded Leaders

British Elitism and the Entitlement Illusion: A Psychohistory

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Education & Teaching, Educational Theory, Leadership, Educational Psychology, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Government
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Author: Nick Duffell ISBN: 9781843964230
Publisher: Lone Arrow Press Ltd. Publication: August 25, 2016
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Nick Duffell
ISBN: 9781843964230
Publisher: Lone Arrow Press Ltd.
Publication: August 25, 2016
Imprint:
Language: English

Political leaders in Britain are consistently drawn from a class born to be educated away from their families in institutions - elite boarding schools. This has a direct effect on their ability to love, to relate, to make good judgments and to develop the necessary leadership qualities for today's world.

In this controversial and highly acclaimed book, the author guides the reader along the elite path through boarding school and Oxbridge to government, unpacking what he calls the Entitlement Illusion. 

Central to the illusion is a uniquely British phenomenon, an industrialised process for turning out servants of the Empire that has been unwilling to change with the times. It was deified in the Victorian Rational Man Project and normalised by the British public, who still buy into the trance. Up to date evidence from neuroscience shows what a poor training for leadership this actually is. 

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Political leaders in Britain are consistently drawn from a class born to be educated away from their families in institutions - elite boarding schools. This has a direct effect on their ability to love, to relate, to make good judgments and to develop the necessary leadership qualities for today's world.

In this controversial and highly acclaimed book, the author guides the reader along the elite path through boarding school and Oxbridge to government, unpacking what he calls the Entitlement Illusion. 

Central to the illusion is a uniquely British phenomenon, an industrialised process for turning out servants of the Empire that has been unwilling to change with the times. It was deified in the Victorian Rational Man Project and normalised by the British public, who still buy into the trance. Up to date evidence from neuroscience shows what a poor training for leadership this actually is. 

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