This book is your essential guide to the theory and practice of leadership. Whatever your level in an organisation, this is your practical handbook for getting to the top and staying there. Learn how to:

• Get promoted, and survive promotion
• Influence and persuade someone, particularly when they're not your direct report
• Handle a crisis and survive adversity
• Step up and know when to step back in moments of risk, opportunity and uncertainty

Jo Owen has worked with over 100 of the best, and a couple of the worst, organisations on our planet. He is a founder of eight NGOs which have a collective turnover of £100 million annually. He led businesses in Japan, North America and Europe; he created a business bank; he was a partner at Accenture and is one of the founders of Teach First which is now the largest graduate recruiter in the UK.