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7/7 ... in 2021 'Elites' is published by @eyebooks.bsky.social The late Gareth Jones, a much esteemed management thinker, made time for me and the book, and @financialtimes.com came up with 'profound, subversive and often very funny' - which I'll always treasure. Next stop: 'The Blindspot'.

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6/7 ... with Agent Orange's first tenancy at the White House. I wrote 'The Rats', a short story inspired by Hilary Mantel's well-known one about Margaret Thatcher. Poetic justice (but not death) arrive on Turnberry golf course. It's free to download at douglasboard.com/novels/the-r... ...

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5/7 ... and so to a world of lies, and novel 2, another with @eyebooks.bsky.social Worst moment: the day the title and dedication came to me, the assassination of Jo Cox MP. Best moments: generous praise from Chris Mullin and Matthew d'Ancona. In the meantime the world got worse ...

4/7 ... then my first novel, a farce set in a business school as the world stumbles into the global financial crisis (remember that?). Published by @eyebooks.bsky.social, it includes what I claim is the most truthful romantic scene ever written ...

3/7 Books 1 and 2 were academic: Choosing Leaders - my doctoral subject - with Gower, then SDLK (pictured) with Prof Rob Warwick published by Palgrave Macmillan. Unknown to me, SDLK laid the ontological and epistemological foundations for the leap 13 yrs later to 'human chess' in The Blindspot ...

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2/7 ... the even more legendary Ship and Whale in Surrey Docks (Canada Water to the literati), and superwoman manager Basia, on Friday. Check my other posts to find out about The Blindspot, published by @eyebooks.bsky.social - I'll walk you through the rest pointing out which ones were with them ...

1/7 Some writing experts swear by daily discipline combining routine with variety. I hope different pubs count - this is me with 15 years' writing output last Thursday in the legendary Brunel in Rotherhithe (SE London: Mayflower country to Americans). Let's take a walk ... @eyebooks.bsky.social

Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 03/07/2026

There were 2 questions about structural privilege, power and ubuntu which we couldn't get to at Wednesday's launch of 'The Blindspot'. Here are our responses at humanchess.info/resources.html And clickable versions of all the references in the dead-tree book ... #humanchess #power #SkyBooks

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Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 02/07/2026

The moment when a Google Alert pops up the morning after your book launch is always a bit special. #BookSky @eyebooks.bsky.social

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5/5 To dig deeper please visit humanchess.info or order the book from www.eye-books.com/products/the-blindspot

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4/5 And: not only are you entitled to understand power safely regardless of your life circumstances and choices, but existing educational and professional tracks, even the most elite, deny practically everyone this knowledge. We have a whole-of-society blindspot.

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3/5 ... making long words short but connecting public, scholarly knowledge about power with your own experience and insight. Our big picture analysis of knowledge about power leads to the conclusion that denying the means for everyone to understand power safely is weird, wrong and doomed.

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2/5 Experts need complicated words with precise meanings (I'll pass on the surgeon who can't do better than 'the dark, bumpy bit at the top right of that beating thing'). But complicated words are also academic barbed wire, signalling to most of us 'keep out!'. Human chess does more than ...

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Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 14/06/2026

1/5 My book 'The Blindspot' which @eyebooks.bsky.social publishes this Wednesday develop 'human chess' as an idea to include as many as possible in a conversation about power which isn't dumbed down. This requires respecting scholarship's expert contribution to knowledge. #power #humanchess #hope

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Time travel lands us aboard a ship which bears some resemblance to the Titanic. The night is dark, windy and touched with ice. But in the C-suite the loudspeaker crackles, one of the Big 4 Entertainers picks up the microphone and reassurance is at hand. www.linkedin.com/posts/turn-t...

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Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 12/06/2026

Until Fri 19 Jun preorder and get a signed copy from @eyebooks.bsky.social. Treat yourself to some hope: discover why tomorrow's 17 year olds (yes, all of them) will understand more about power than today's elite leaders. www.eye-books.com/products/the-blindspot #power #hope #lifeskills

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Douglas Board @boardwryter.uk · 10/06/2026

A question so easy it may come from one of those cognitive functioning tests which Agent Orange aces on Tuesday afternoons - if you can tear down a country's liberty, why not a statue? newrepublic.com/article/2115... via @newrepublic.com

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Can Trump Really Tear Down the Statue of Liberty? His Lawyers Say Yes.

An administration lawyer made this shocking and cynical argument in court last week. That’s the position of an emperor, not a president.

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Eye Books @eyebooks.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

📘 The Blindspot by Douglas Board and Martin Henwood is coming in July 2026. Available to pre-order now. @boardwryter.uk www.eye-books.com/products/the...

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Eye Books @eyebooks.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Who has more power: The person who gives you permission? Or the person who can punish you for using it? The Blindspot asks us to look again at where power really lives.

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Eye Books @eyebooks.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Power isn't always the person who signs your payslip. Sometimes it's the people who can make your life impossible if you don't do what they want.