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Minority Leader is a necessary guide to harnessing the strengths of being an outsider by Stacey Abrams, one of the most prominent black female politicians in the U.S.
Leadership is hard. Convincing others--and often yourself--that you possess the answers and are capable of world-affecting change requires confidence, insight, and sheer bravado. Stacey Abrams's Minority Leader is the handbook for outsiders, written with the awareness of the experiences and challenges that hinder anyone who exists beyond the structure of traditional white male power--women, people of color, members of the LGBTQ community, and millennials ready to make a difference.
In Minority Leader , Stacey Abrams argues that knowing your own passion is the key to success, regardless of the scale or target. From launching a company, to starting a day care center for homeless teen moms, to running a successful political campaign, finding what you want to fight for is as critical as knowing how to turn thought into action. Stacey uses her experience and hard-won insights to break down how ambition, fear, money, and failure function in leadership, while offering personal stories that illuminate practical strategies.
Stacey includes exercises to help you hone your skills and realize your aspirations. She discusses candidly what she has learned over the course of her impressive career: that differences in race, gender, and class are surmountable. With direction and dedication, being in the minority actually provides unique and vital strength, which we can employ to rise to the top and make real change.
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Booklist Review
After Georgia state legislator Abrams writes about graduating magna cum laude from at Spelman College; attending Yale Law School and becoming a tax attorney at a private firm; serving as consultant to nonprofits while starting a handful of her own, including one that registered hundreds of thousands of new voters in the state; and writing romance-suspense novels, she had the nerve to say that what she really wanted to be was a singer. And who knows, she may still find a way to fit that in, after her current run for governor of Georgia, which would make her the first African American woman to hold that office. Although there are many books on networking and achieving political and entrepreneurial success, Abrams' is geared toward helping those who are on the fringes, especially African American women, find pathways to success and power. With chapters such as Fear and Otherness, Prepare to Win and Embrace the Fail, and Making What You Have Work, this is an excellent guide that addresses setbacks and pitfalls and identifies strategies to overcome them.--Hawkins, Valerie Copyright 2018 Booklist
Table of Contents
Introduction | p. xiii |
1 Dare to Want More | p. 1 |
2 Fear and Otherness | p. 29 |
3 Hacking and Owning Opportunity | p. 53 |
4 The Myth of Mentors | p. 79 |
5 Money Matters | p. 103 |
6 Prepare to Win and Embrace the Fail | p. 131 |
7 Making What You Have Work | p. 151 |
8 Work-Life Jenga | p. 175 |
9 Taking Power | p. 199 |
Acknowledgments | p. 209 |
Index | p. 219 |