This book is chock-full of strategies, tools, tips and techniques, drawn from the author's experience, which lifted him from the gritty streets of Kingston, Jamaica where he was surrounded by rebels and rude boys, and enabled him to go to University where he obtained a Masters degree, hold his own in corporate board rooms and travel to countries he only dreamed of visiting in his youth. The title is taken from the story in Zen meditation, which the author took up in his youth, of the little Carp which leaped over the waterfall which stood in its way as it swam upstream to its spawning ground....