Business Leadership Under Fire: Nine Steps to Rescue and Transform Organizations

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?

Business Leadership Under Fire: Nine Steps to Rescue and Transform Organizations is the book every business leader needs. It will inspire readers with its thoughtful, practical and battle-hardened recipes for success.

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”.

Using lessons forged on the front lines of both the military and commercial worlds, Dinandt and Westley’s concise book is required reading for anyone in any organization that needs help in turbulent times.

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.