“Don’t moan, move”
‘Nobody has the God-given right to be promoted from within,’ says Javed Khan, CEO of £300m children’s charity Barnardo’s. His wide-ranging career began in teaching, before taking him into local government and finally the voluntary sector.
‘People get confused about this, they start playing the victim, moaning and groaning and saying the world’s against me. If you’ve tried and failed, move somewhere else. Some of the best decisions I made were when I did exactly that.’