Are we still living in a clichéd dog-eat-dog corporate world? Peter Crossgrove was fired several times on a matter of principal. Having served on close to seventy mining, corporate, and not-for-profit boards, armed with a sense of humour, dignity, dogged determination, and humility, Crossgrove has challenged boardroom antics and relationship intricacies with the skill-sets and values he was raised with. It’s a time for change around the boardroom table. Described as a one-man show and taking his corporate responsibilities seriously, Crossgrove’s winning attitude to success in life is one he works towards being available to all.

Appointed VP of Marketing for Seagram’s at the age of twenty-eight, Crossgrove has served as Vice Chairman and CEO of Placer Dome Inc. and has sat on business and mining boards, volunteer boards, as well as university and government boards. He currently sits on mining, real estate investment trusts, and other business boards. Crossgrove is the recipient of the Order of Ontario, Order of Canada, the Upper Canada Medal, Queens Golden Jubilee Medal, and Queens Diamond Jubilee Medal.

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"'Boardroom Games – You’re Fired' is required reading for everyone from the first year MBA student to the seasoned CEO to the government leader. Corporate boards have experienced so much change that Peter Crossgrove’s 'behind the scenes' look is a template for corporate governance for many board members today. Peter’s biography is that of a true renaissance man and a miner’s miner. Bravo, Peter!"

“I trust others will enjoy this book as much as I have.  Peter has travelled through so many different worlds and eras.  From mining in Sudbury to marketing at Seagrams at age 28; having the legendary Sam Bronfman’s ear; to starting, building and fixing companies; all with a complete rolodex of fantastic and influential friends – affecting so many companies and not-for-profit organizations.  Peter has lived up to what he learned – leaving everything better than he found it.”

"Peter Crossgrove's career has been unique, challenging, interesting and has paralleled the glory days of the Canadian mineral industry.  He has seen from experience that appointing your cronies to Boards of Directors simply does not work.  This book is a must read for all professionals as it chronicles a half century of Canadian history by an intelligent, honorable and entrepreneurial spirit who helped build the Canadian economy and who's charitable efforts are without peers."

"If you want to know anything or anybody connected to leadership in mining, real estate, health care or either corporate or not-for-profit governance in Canada, Peter A. Crossgrove is the person to ask.  Peter’s experience in these and other fields is vast.  An indefatigable hard- nosed former football player, he is an example of that rare combination of a tough executive and a deeply caring, ethical human being who holds himself and others to a high standard of integrity.  Reading 'Boardroom Games – You’re Fired' is a trip through the highways (and back alleys) of Canada’s corporate world guided by a man who has been intimate with successive Premiers of Ontario, with business tycoons and CEOs in North America and elsewhere, but also with miners, fishermen, pilots and farmers from Copper Cliff to Sudbury to Manitoulin Island.  Mr. Crossgrove has as well made a career of philanthropy and leadership in the health care field. He richly deserved his induction into the Order of Canada that finally came his way.  His memoir deserves to be read."