The essential guide for Black professionals to move up through their organizations and ultimately reach the top, with real-life tips, strategies, and insights from Black peers to help you stay there. ? Highlighting the experiences of other Black faces in high places who were able to leap even the highest barriers, reach the top, and become a leader of leaders—including insights from President Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, BET co-founder Bob Johnson, and others—this groundbreaking book: Identifies the 10 strategic actions successful Black leaders and executives must take to reach the summit of success. Empowers readers with models and steps to follow the 10 actions on their own journeys to bust through any barriers on their way to the top. Provides a lens into the careers of prominent figures across several industries and sectors who have walked in your shoes. Walks you through the changes in mindset required along your success path until the focus ultimately shifts to helping other leaders. Black Faces in White Places is both a clarion call for more Black professionals at the top making systemic decisions for true advancement for the Black community, as well as the roadmap for you to rise to the highest rank of success and stay there.
I didn't have a demo tape I was shoppin' you know, none of that,” Johnson said to us in an interview. But when he found out that Stephen Hill, a programming executive at BET, liked his work and voice while with the NAACP and requested a ...
Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
This book has inspired millions of people to become sure-footed in their faith even when facing the rockiest of life’s terrain.
Provides a black employee's guide to success when working in a white workplace, and focuses on getting hired, pursuing legal support, and using one's own style, history, and goals.
Joel Anderson, “Ferguson's Angry Young Men,” BuzzFeed, August 22, 2014, http://www.buzzfeed.com/joelanderson/who-are-fergusons-young-protesters. Johnetta Elzie, “When I Close My Eyes at Night, I See People Running from Tear Gas,” Ebony ...
He discusses the importance of: Understanding corporate culture—and the impact it has on your career Being visible—because you can’t get ahead if nobody knows who you are Staying current—why minorities must be continuous learners ...
In their 1967 blueprint for new political action, Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton envisioned a different result from white power. “The ultimate values and goals are not dominion or exploitation of other groups, but rather an ...
A timely response to the massive upswing in carceral forms within society, Spatializing Blackness examines how these mechanisms came to exist, why society aimed them against African Americans, and the consequences for black communities and ...
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