How African-American professionals can combine their personal strengths with the wisdom of others and plant the seeds of a positive and lasting legacy in the workplace.
Based on the authors\' considerable experiences in business, in the public eye, and in the minority, the book shows how African-American professionals can (and must) think and act both Entrepreneurially and Intrapreneurially, combine their collective strengths with the wisdom of others, and plant the seeds of a positive and lasting legacy..
Ultimately, it is about changing the very concept of Success itself.
It is not only about shattering the old glass ceiling, but also about examining the four dimensions of the contemporary Black experience: identity, society, meritocracy, and opportunity.
The book offers 10 revolutionary Strategies for playing, mastering, and changing the game for the current generation, while undertaking a wholesale redefinition of the rules for those who will follow.
Black Faces in White Places is about the game-that is, the competitive world in which we all live and work.
But as millions of Black Americans were reminded by Pinkett\'s experience, sometimes hard work is not enough.
For generations, African-Americans have been told that to succeed, they need to work twice as hard as everyone else.
The request (and Pinkett\'s subsequent refusal) set off a firestorm of controversy that inevitably focused on the issue of race in the American workplace and in society.
When he won, this Black man also became the only contestant to be asked to share his victory-with a White woman.
If the name Randal Pinkett sounds familiar, it may be because Pinkett was the first African-American winner on The Apprentice .
How African-American professionals can combine their personal strengths with the wisdom of others and plant the seeds of a positive and lasting legacy in the workplace
