• 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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Re-Cap – Leadership: The Power Behind the Throne – The Commonwealth Club

Re-Cap – Leadership: The Power Behind the Throne – The Commonwealth Club

The Commonwealth Club, San Francisco – Richard Hytner, Adjunct Professor of Marketing at the London Business School, and author of Consiglieri: Leading from the Shadows, addressed an audience of current, past, and aspiring leaders. A lively debate exposed the trials and rewards of leadership – and deconstructed today’s falsehoods of hierarchy, the value of alternative styles, and the talents of the unsung heroes in corporations, governments, and sports.

Listen to the full discussion at commonwealthclub.org

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