"Conquering the North Face: An Adventure in Leadership is about a new kind of leadership in business and in life. Founder and 20-year CEO of The North Face, Klopp presents an irreverent and iconoclastic challenge to conventional ideas about leadership, and offers an invitation to create a wide-open, have-fun approach to business. Using stories and metaphors from his personal involvement in the world of adventure, Klopp explains not only how to lead but why you should. Designed to be read in no more than a single cross country airplane flight, this uplifting, refreshing book provides memorable tools and strategies for leaders everywhere to employ to conquier their own personal mountains, and to have fun while scaling the peak."