I thoroughly recommend Business Leadership Under Fire. It is a valuable guide to dealing with the unexpected challenges that can stall the growth of even the most successful firms. Leaders setting out on their journey will be presented with an inspiring, helpful guide packed full of strategies that they can try, but even old hands will find that there is plenty that can be learned here.
-- Tim Collins, OBE

Rooted in the hard-edge, real-life experience of the battlefield and boardroom.
-- Sir Roger Carr, Chairman, BAE Systems

If you only read one business book this year, make sure it is this one.
-- Joanne Bennett, Chief Business Officer, PizzaExpress

Inspirational boardroom reading in times of transformational change.
-- Johannes Huth, Head of KKR & Co LLP, EMEA

Nine simple steps that can be applied by anyone in any organization. Essential reading.
-- Holger Engelmann, CEO Webasto SE

★This concise book is by the business transformation experts and military strategy experts Dinandt and Westley, using lessons forged on the front lines of both the military and commercial worlds.

★A book that is required reading for anyone in any organization that needs help in turbulent times! It will inspire readers with its thoughtful, practical and battle-hardened recipes for success.

Disaster, disruption and change are recurring challenges in business. We are used to reading about the successful disruptors of established industries (Tesla, Amazon, Netflix, Uber, etc.), but what about the companies they disrupted? What ever happened to them? How did they cope? And more importantly, what are the secrets of making a business thrive again?

Pepyn Dinandt usually gets parachuted into an organization only after it realizes it is in real trouble. It is his job to assess and understand the situation that faces the business while also devising effective ways forward towards recovery and success. In Business Leadership Under Fire Dinandt draws on his own extensive business experience and, with the help of decorated army officer Colonel Richard Westley, marries this proven expertise with the leadership insights of military thinkers to develop an imaginative and practical nine-step plan for any leader who wishes not simply to survive but to inspire and thrive “under fire”.

Pepyn Dinandt is a business executive with ­thirty years of experience successfully leading the restructuring and transformation of companies in challenging situations at CEO and chairman level. His passion for this type of work started while working at McKinsey in the late 1980s. Pepyn has worked in a range of business-to-business industries, typically within the manufacturing sector. His motto is ‘practise what you preach’.

Richard Westley OBE MC ­retired from the ­British Army in 2010 as a colonel, having served in Northern Ireland, Albania, Afghanistan, Côte d’Ivoire and the Balkans. For his leadership in the face of the ­enemy he was awarded the Military Cross and an OBE. Since 2010 he has worked in a number of director-level posts and now runs his own consulting business with a diverse portfolio of clients.