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Book SynopsisA 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 HiTrade Review'Black Faces in High Places details the blueprint for Black professionals to not only grow as leaders but explains the importance of being a mentor to others who are striving to achieve the top status too often denied. This is an incredible book outlining essential strategies that every Black professional should embrace.' * David L. Steward, Founder and Chairman, World Wide Technology *'Black Faces in High Places not only gives strategy, it gives proof of concepts by authorship from people who have done it!' * Janice Bryant Howroyd, CEO and Founder, ActOne Group *'Black Faces in High Places should be required reading for any African-American professional.' * Bob Johnson, Founder, Black Entertainment Television and The RLJ Companies *'The roadmap to climb the ladder and create lasting change is found in Black Faces in High Places.' * Cathy Hughes, Founder and Chairperson of Urban One *'Black Faces in High Places is an essential roadmap for any African-American professional or aspiring professional to learn to navigate what can be challenging terrain. This book is one part toolkit, two parts inspiration.' * Joy-Ann Reid, host of MSNBC's The ReidOut *

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Book SynopsisInvestigates which mental abilities and behaviours allow Latin Americans to be successful in the labour market. It provides guidance for policy makers on how to foster learning and human development.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAs a feminist rhetorician who has long worked at the intersection of silence and listening, I'm delighted with Arnold's study of women, silence/silencing, and leadership. For me, hers is an important cross-over book, one that beautifully transports academic research into workplace understandings--and applications! -- Cheryl Glenn, PhD, University Distinguished Professor of English, Penn State University, author of "Rhetorical Feminism and This Thing Called Hope"

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Book SynopsisA master’s degree student in narrative anthropology, Emily has examined her own roots—but only through an academic lens. All this changes, however, when she comes home to Africa and reconnects with her family’s tribe and its mystical prophecies. Sent on an assignment to embed herself with the last living members of this ancient tribe living the old way deep in the forest, Emily attempts to keep an academic distance even as the people she’s there to observe insist that she is the one they’ve been waiting for, and that it is her destiny to find a stone tablet made thousands of years before Christ and lead the tribe into the future. But resisting her call for change are the women in her village—who worship a secret goddess who advocates female genital mutilation as a symbol of true purity—as well as a police chief with an agenda all his own. Soon, Emily is swept into the ultimate battle of opposing minds, souls, and bodies—one that could determine the future not just of her tribe but women everywhere.Trade Review2018 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Winner in General Fiction/Novel (Over 80,000 words) “Everything Jeanie Kortum writes (and does!) is informed by a huge heart, a gentle and tenacious intelligence, a fierce longing to tell truth stories, a passionate dedication to the betterment of humanity. She is a wonderful writer.” —Anne Lamott “Not since Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy has a novel so boldly placed female genital mutilation at its heart. Stones does not turn away but looks directly at this ancient rite, encompassing and also challenging modernity's response to it. Stones is as rewarding as it is provocative.” —Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University “As a survivor of female genital mutilation, I welcome the complex tale Jeanie Kortum has spun in Stones. On so many levels, her fiction tells the truth about a custom whose psychological density and convolution escape the rigid categories of sociology and statistics. In their place we find spirituality, tribal identity, myth, mysticism, and art—beliefs that anchor FGM in defiant emotions that must be uncovered and addressed in order that we activists will sooner see the end of a noxious tradition.” —Khady Koita, author of Mutilée, translated as Blood Stains “Appeals to human rights go only so far; statistical analyses, medical persuasion, and lofty sermons cannot address the roots of FGM (Female Genital Mutilation). Only stories like Kortum’s Stones do, with its intricate heights and depths, emotions, inventions, and insight.” —Dr. Tobe Levin von Gleichen, Associate, Harvard University, Visiting Research Fellow, University of Oxford, CEO, UnCUT/VOICES "Jeanie Kortum is a storyteller in the ancient tradition that she writes of: at once poet, dreamweaver, detective, medicine woman, and visionary. Each sentence of Stones is a work of art, each word a surprise and at the same time deeply remembered from an indigenous past buried in our cells. An epic poem, a healing spell, an ancient incantation and a page-turner novel, the reader may emerge as changed and awakened as the characters and cultures in these pages." —Kim Rosen, author of Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words and founder of the S.H.E. Fund “At the heart of Stones is a harsh tradition, female genital mutilation that tethers its tribal actors to the Kenyan earth, the cradle of humanity. Tradition encroaches upon modernity as the young anthropologist intent on scientific investigation assumes the role of a messianic heroine . . . Carried by the soundscape of Kortum’s story, readers search for origins, struggle with change, chafe against inevitability. They are also granted the opportunity to loosen the chains of conflicted complicity through the authority of an extraordinary language.” —Dr. Maria Jaschok Director, International Gender Studies Centre, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford “Reading Stones made my mind sweat, like listening to poignant music can do. Partly this is because of its tasty flavorful words, which exceed what we call 'poetry'. And partly it is because in the protagonist Emely/Amely, one experiences a human being turning into a divinity." —Shao John Thorpe, author of The Cargo Cult

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