As an OD practitioner and coach, another text on leadership has to offer something intellectually stimulating and practical in application. This book certainly achieves these aims, and more. The authors draw on their wealth of experience to write a book that is well grounded in the theory and highly accessible to their main audience - senior executives. Be prepared for a roller coaster of sources - Greek writers, Aesop's Fables, Pirandello and business case-studies - creating a rich and interesting read. In addition, the reader is invited to work with their view of leadership through a range of activities. Thus the reader may explore what can trip them into unproductive, negative patterns that will detract from achieving desired results. The drivers that make any of us successful can, in overdrive, become damaging to ourselves and those we engage with. This book offers a way of seeking to understand our own shadow side. Like a good coaching relationship, this book provides the reader with some difficult challenges and yet keeps them safe.