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Minute Six

byKevin Fong

How Great Teams Fail and Prevail

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Military strategists have taught us that no plan survives the first five minutes of battle; but the battle rages on. What happens in minute six of a crisis?

Professor Kevin Fong was flying with the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service, making split-second, life-or-death decisions in the most extreme circumstances when he was seconded to the NHS's Covid-19 Strategy Unit on the frontline of the fight against a global pandemic.

Telling stories of astonishing skill and catastrophic error across medicine, aviation and space-flight, and reflecting on his own dramatic experiences as well as those of war medics, pilots and surgeons, Fong brings us lessons from the frontline in leadership, teamwork, strategy and how to fail.

About Kevin Fong

Kevin Fong (OBE) is a consultant at UCL Hospitals specialising in intensive-care medicine and Major Incident Planning, where he also holds an honorary chair of Public Engagement for Science and Medicine. In 2020 he was seconded to the NHS England Covid-19 Emrgency Preparedness, Resilience and Response Team. Previously he has flown with the Helicopter Emergency Service and worked at NASA. He holds degrees in astrophysics, medicine and engineering. He is the writer and presenter of the number one hit podcast 13 Minutes to the Moon and author of Extremes: Life, Death and the Limits of the Human Body.
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  • Imprint: Bodley Head
  • ISBN: 9781847923684
  • Length: 320 pages
  • Price: £22.00
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