Professor Kevin Fong was flying with the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service, making split-second, life-or-death decisions in the most extreme circumstances.

No plan survives the first five minutes of contact with reality – so how should we prepare for what follows?

A unique survival guide for an uncertain world from Kevin Fong, doctor, expert in major-incident planning and response, NASA physician and helicopter emergency medic

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'Inspiring' OLIVIA COLMAN
'Humane, gripping and profound' CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN
'This gripping, essential book is a masterclass' DAVID NOTT

Kevin Fong has spent his working life in high-risk, high-performance teams – flying as a Helicopter Emergency Medical Service doctor, working with NASA’s human spaceflight programme, as well as being part of the UK’s frontline response to major incidents and terror attacks.

Told through gripping stories of the most challenging, high-pressure emergencies across medicine, aviation and spaceflight, Minute Six provides crucial, counter-intuitive insights into how the best teams and organisations succeed against the odds, learn from failure and go again.

'Enthralling from start to finish. No one is better placed to dissect how humans best navigate our complex, volatile, high-stakes world' RACHEL CLARKE

'Easily the best book I’ve read this year, full of exceptional storytelling' HELEN CZERSKI

'Brilliantly cuts across disciplines to give rare, useful tools and insights. A must-read’ CHRIS HADFIELD

'Belongs on the shelf of every leader' Gen. STANLEY McCHRYSTAL

'A vivid-page-turner' ANIL SETH