India, Oct. 4 -- Second to None makes the case for the leaders who never get the corner office, and its New Delhi launch showed how many of them there are.

Business literature has a favourite protagonist: the founder, the turnaround CEO, the person at the top. Manoj Madaan's DEPUTY: Second to None, published globally by Walnut Publication, looks one rung down. It is a book about the number two and number three, the people who turn a boardroom's intent into a working institution.

Its central line is also its sharpest: "You need not be number one to be second to none." Madaan, a global business executive, TEDx speaker and conscious leadership coach, pitches the book at a specific reader, the person who is "unquestionably capable yet remai...