The Leadership Joy of Being a Great No. 2

Don't settle for second place, says almost every leadership writer out there. Correct, Richard Hytner would respond. Rather than settling for it, embrace it, love it, glory in it. Hytner, a former chief executive of Saatchi & Saatchi for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and now down a slot as deputy chairman, is the author of Consiglieri: Leading From the Shadows, a new book devoted to the seriously underappreciated role of the expert No. 2. It's a trove of advice about how to be a great dep...