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One of the most influential Black business leaders in America today shares "the good, the great, the bad, and the ugly" of her journey through both cancer and everything that led up to it, offering hope and practical guidance for navigating life's most difficult challenges.
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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English
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Madam C. J. Walker is reputed to be America's first self-made woman millionaire. Born to former slaves in the Louisiana Delta in the aftermath of the Civil War, married at fourteen, and widowed at twenty, Walker spent the first decades of her life as a laundress. By the time of her death in 1919, however, Walker had refashioned herself into one of the most famous African American figures in the nation: the owner and president of a hair-care empire...
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"This is an inspirational leadership story told from the vantage point of an LGBTQ+ individual. It will highlight Fielding's journey and career starting in blue-collar Toledo, Ohio at a c-suite level position in retail and media/entertainment. This is a book to inspire authentic, servant leadership and to encourage people to own their truth to bring out the best in themselves and their teams. Fielding will use his personal story to illustrate key...
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Pearson
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
1st edition.
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1 online resource (224 pages)
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English
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And Dignity for All is about leading with values, leading by example, and - in so doing - unleashing the astonishing commitment and innovation that are buried within your organization right now. Discover how Jim Despain and his colleagues used values-based management to transform Caterpillar's Track-Type Tractors Division into one of the firm's key profit centers. Jim's honesty and ability to rise from the ashes of his mistakes are inspirational....
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"A major new biography of J Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of a colossus who dominated half a century of American history and planted the seeds for much of today's conservative political landscape. We remember him as a bulldog--squat frame, bulging wide-set eyes, fearsome jowls--but in 1924, when he became director of the FBI, he had been the trim, dazzling wunderkind of the administrative...
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
©2004
Edition
1st ed.
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1 online resource (xxi, 432, [16] pages) : portraits
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English
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Thousands if not millions of people have heard the term?servant leadership,? introduced by Robert K. Greenleaf in his landmark essay The Servant as Leader, published in 1970. There are now Centers for Servant Leadership in ten countries and counting. His work is regularly cited by some of the most prominent business writers and leaders in the world, such as Ken Blanchard, Stephen Covey, Peter Senge, Margaret Wheatley, and Peter Block. And yet until...
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"About a year ago, Tom Bulleit stood on a stage inside a tent the size of a big-top on the occasion of--in order of importance--his thirtieth wedding anniversary, the dedication of the new Bulleit Distillery in Shelbyville, Kentucky, and his seventy-fourth birthday. At one point, overcome by a sudden and surprising wave of emotion, he gripped the podium, looked into the blur of faces before him, and said, "I don't believe our lives are told in years......
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