• It has become something of a taboo in our society to say you don't want to be a leader — especially if you are one. Richard Hytner, a former CEO at the global advertising giant Saatchi & Saatchi, experienced it firsthand and is trying to break that stigma.- Lillian Cunningham, Editor, On Leadership, The Washington Post
  • Hytner notes that talent development, for example, is crucial to companies now, so the lack of a great track record for hiring, inspiring, and keeping star employees sometimes trips up aspiring CEOs.- Anne Fisher, Fortune Magazine
  • He argues convincingly that a great team of a chief executive and a number two is a more successful proposition than a solitary leader. Mr Hytner describes the various types of consiglieri – lodestones, educators, anchors and deliverers, according to his segmentation.- Luke Johnson, Financial Times
  • Richard Hytner, deputy chairman of London-based advertising giant Saatchi & Saatchi, thinks corporate understudies are too often overlooked. He’s set out to burnish the reputation of the second-in-command...- Adam Auriemma, the Wall Street Journal
  • It’s a trove of advice about how to be a great deputy and principal adviser, a calling that has brought out the best in people as varied and admirable as Warren Buffett’s Charlie Munger, Anna Wintour’s Grace Coddington, Abraham Lincoln’s William Seward, and Henry VIII’s Thomas Cromwell.- Frederick E. Allen, Forbes

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Who’s the boss – NZ Listener

Who’s the boss – NZ Listener

Being No 2 has traditionally been thought of as … second best. From the valiant but dim Deputy Dawg and “spare” heirs such as Prince Harry to even the superficially illustrious position of Vice President of the United States – think Dan Quayle – second-in-lines are apt not to be taken entirely seriously. It’s the also-ran choice, the holding-pattern option in case No 1 goes under a bus. No one grows up with a burning ambition to be a second-in-command. According to a new book by British business leader and academic Richard Hytner, however, deputy dawgs are a much under-rated…

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