Black Faces in High Places
10 Strategic Actions for Black Professionals to Reach the Top and Stay There
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Black Faces in High Places
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Ron Butler
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GOLD MEMBER WINNER — LIVING NOW BOOK AWARD: SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP and eLIT BOOK AWARD: BUSINESS AUDIOBOOK
A timely resource for Black professionals on how to rise to the top of their organizations or industries and, just as importantly, to stay there.
Black Faces in High Places is the essential guide for Black professionals who are moving up through their organizations or industries but need a roadmap for how to get to the top and stay there. Based on the authors' considerable experiences in business, in the public eye, and as a minority, the book shows how African-American professionals can (and must) think and act both entrepreneurially and "intrapreneurially".
In this book, you will:
- Expand yourself beyond your comfort zone
- Recognize and demonstrate the four facets of excellence
- Build beneficial relationships and powerful networks
- Identify different mentors and learn from others' experiences
- Discover ways of working with others to facilitate collective action
Black Faces in High?Places highlights the experiences of other Black faces in high places who were able to navigate various crossroads, reach the top, and stay there, including insights from President Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Cathy Hughes, Angela Glover Blackwell, Ken Chenault, Senator Cory Booker, Geoffrey Canada, and others.
Negatives: This book unfortunately lacked focus and clarity for understanding how to actually get to the top. As a black professional trying to find strategies to overcome the difficulties of the corporate workplace I thought this book would be it. The only useful chapter for me was on networking. Unfortunately there is nothing in the book about surviving office politics, dealing with rejection, psychological defence against failure and many painful realities in the way of getting to the top.
However this book shines better for aspiring black entrepreneurs and gives a well rounded roadmap of things to think about. Whether its leveraging networks, acquisitions or aquiring funding. However even here I found the book limited in thinking. There is a heavy focus on social entrepreneurship which creates philanthropic opportunities in the black community too. Thats absolutely admirable but also very limiting. We desperately need to see more black people at the very top i.e Billlionaires. The more at the very top, the easier it will be to change perceptions for those struggling at the bottom. So this book needed a focus on creating businesses that create significance to impact the entire world beyond only the black community. In my opinion this book needed concrete strategies to overcome barriers in the way of the future black Bill Gates or Henry Fords of the business world rather than limiting ourselves to being black entertainers or social entrepreneurs only impacting black communities.
Other than that, this is an excellent and well rounded book.
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