Sunday 4 September 2011

Camila Batmanghelidjh - If you could edit your past, what would you change?



Camila Batmanghelidjh was born in Tehran in 1963. She was educated at Sherborne Girls' School and Warwick University and became a psychotherapist. In her early 20s, she started her first charity, The Place To Be, a counselling service for schoolchildren. In 1996, she founded Kids Company in six converted railway arches in London, and in 2006 her book, Shattered Lives: Children Living With Courage And Dignity, was published. She lives in London.

When asked: If you could edit your past, what would you change?

Her response was: I so underestimated the destructive powers of middle management.

So what has she experienced to reach this conclusion?  What's it like in your organisation?  And what can we do to help?

See her interview at The Guardian

From: The Guardian, Sat 2 Sept 2011


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