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 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.
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