The press baron Lord Beaverbrook on what it really takes to get to the top. Drawing on a career that made him one of the most powerful men of his age, he writes plainly about judgment, timing, energy, and the willingness to seize the moment. There is no mysticism here, just the shrewd, tested counsel of a man who did it. A short, hard-headed book on ambition from someone who lived it at the highest level.