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The Gatehouse: A Book About Business, a Story About Life

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Elkins employs the story of four coworkers to demonstrate a suc-cessful workplace, career, and life in general. This is not your usual business book with dry scenarios and forced humor that didactically demonstrate a point. Instead, The Gatehouse is merely a story, yet so much more. Four aspiring professionals begin their careers at the same time and form a fast and enduring friendship. The trials and experiences of life mold their personalities and construct their unique paths to achievement. Told from the perspective of the most materially driven of the group, his life reaches a crisis point where he must assess his accomplishments in terms of real value and worth. He learns that true success is defined by the individual, and the value of one's life is judged by his interactions with others. Inspiring, heartfelt, this book will no doubt leave its mark and serve as a wake-up call for those on the corporate treadmill

The Gatehouse is an exceptional business book. This story with the strong characters the reader grows to love and respect, will inspire any executive, manager or line employee.

In addition, those not in business will learn powerful lessons about friendships, love and life. Truly engages the heart and soul in thinking of connections to ones own life.

Looking forward to the sequel!

This book should be required reading for future managers! The author has united a compelling story with well drawn characters to an impactive business guide that is filled with heart and conscience. A great, fast read that makes you think...

Craig Elkins has taken the best of life and organisational transformation thinking and moved out of the text book format into a compelling, fun, emotional and deeply connecting story. The four main characters, while so different in personality managed to capture the fears, desires and dreams that I have inside me too. This is the sort of book that a manager should consider buying for all the people in a department or company. It would create great new conversations, connections and possibilities for transformation. Thank you Craig

"The Gatehouse" is a cutting edge business book that addresses the issue of today - what gives meaning to our lives at work and how do we fulfill/sustain that. Strengthening cultural capital is the new paradigm of business management, and this book not only provides methodologies on how to achieve this, but insight into the human forces that actualize it. Realizing how we impact others and how we can better do so is one of life's greatest and ultimately most rewarding challenges. I applaud Craig Elkins for putting the material in the form of a novel so that we can better see ourselves as we read relative to our work position. This is a book for all managers regardless of level, MBA students and anyone aspiring to be a leader.

Whether male or female, business person or not, The Gatehouse inspires on multiple levels (philosophically, intellectually, spiritually). The four strong characters are people you'd like to know; they grapple with life's great truths (e.g. paying attention to coincidences that personalize our individual path) through years of friendship, humor and crisis. Business/work ethics, friendship, romance, and a humorous spiritual entity make this book a "gift" for anyone on my list.