WHAT IS POWER, WHO KNOWS ABOUT IT AND HOW DID THEY FIND OUT?

Power lurks in every relationship, interaction and transaction but is scarcely understood even by those who wield it most. In The Blindspot, executive coach Douglas Board and priest Martin Henwood offer a radical, accessible and practical exploration of power which breaks new ground.

The book reflects on more than sixty real-life incidents, including forty from the authors' personal and professional experience. These range from corporate misconduct and gross abuse of authority in hospitals, churches and schools, to whistleblowing at Uber, leadership change at Sainsbury's and selection decisions in the heart of government. The authors expose how poorly our elite leaders understand power. This missing knowledge they place in your hands.

The Blindspot uses the idea of human chess to examine how we are all, at every moment, pieces playing and being played on multiple boards simultaneously. It analyses how knowledge about power is distributed across society, predicts the rise of the first power-literate generation, and suggests how all of us can accelerate this future.



Dr Douglas Board is an executive coach and the author of five books (including two novels) on leadership and power. He is a visiting professor at the University of Chichester and was until 2024 a member of the King's Counsel Selection Panel. The Financial Times described his most recent book, Elites, as 'profound, subversive and often very funny'.

Martin Henwood is a priest in the Church of England and vicar of Holy Trinity, Dartford in Kent. He has trained in group analysis, served as Bishop's Adviser on regeneration and chaired an NHS authority as well as school governing bodies. He particularly values the mystic wisdom traditions across different faiths, and turning spirituality into action.