Leading in Black and White: Working Across the Racial Divide in Corporate America (J-B CCL (Center for Creative Leadership)) PDF
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fm.Livers 9/9/02 11:38 AM Page iii Leading in Black and White Working Across the Racial Divide in Corporate America Ancella B. Livers Keith A. Caver Center for ® Creative Leadership leadership. learning. life. intromatter.Livers 9/8/02 5:33 PM Page xii fm.Livers 9/9/02 11:38 AM Page i Center for ® Creative Leadership leadership. learning. life. fm.Livers 9/9/02 11:38 AM Page ii Books from Jossey-Bass and the Center for Creative Leadership The Deep Blue Sea,by Wilfred Drath Discovering the Leader in You,by Robert J. Lee and Sara N. King Executive Selection, by Valerie I. Sessa and Jodi J. Taylor The Center for Creative Leadership Handbook of Leadership Development, edited by Cynthia D. McCauley, Russ S. Moxley, and Ellen Van Velsor Leadership and Spirit,by Russ S. Moxley The Leader’s Edge,by Charles J. Palus and David M. Horth Maximizing the Value of 360-Degree Feedback, by Walter W. Tornow et al. Positive Turbulence,by Stanley S. Gryskiewicz Standing at the Crossroads, by Marian N. Ruderman and Patricia J. Ohlott Success for the New Global Manager, by Maxine Dalton, Chris Ernst, Jennifer Deal, and Jean Leslie For more information, visit www.josseybass.com/go/ccl or www.ccl.org/publications fm.Livers 9/9/02 11:38 AM Page iii Leading in Black and White Working Across the Racial Divide in Corporate America Ancella B. Livers Keith A. Caver Center for ® Creative Leadership leadership. learning. life. fm.Livers 9/9/02 11:38 AM Page iv Copyright © 2003 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved. Published by Jossey-Bass A Wiley Imprint 989 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94103-1741 www.josseybass.com No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, 978-750-8400, fax 978-750-4470, or on the web at www.copyright.com. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, (201) 748-6011, fax (201) 748-6008, e-mail: [email protected]. Jossey-Bass books and products are available through most bookstores. To contact Jossey-Bass directly call our Customer Care Department within the U.S. at 800-956-7739, outside the U.S. at 317-572-3986 or fax 317-572-4002. Jossey-Bass also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Livers, Ancella B., 1956- Leading in black and white : working across the racial divide in corporate America / by Ancella B. Livers and Keith A. Caver. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7879-5724-0 (acid-free) 1. Afro-American executives. 2. Executives—United States. 3. Industrial management—United States. I. Caver, Keith A., 1957- II. Title. HD38.25.U6 L584 2003 658.4'092'08996073—dc21 2002014352 Printed in the United States of America first edition HB Printing 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 fm.Livers 9/9/02 11:38 AM Page v A joint publication in The Jossey-Bass Business & Management Series and The Center for Creative Leadership fm.Livers 9/9/02 11:38 AM Page vi To those who by their sacrifices and through whose vision and determination these opportunities now exist. Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii The Authors xv Introduction 1 Part One: A World of Difference for Black Managers 13 1. The Assumption of Similarity 15 2. Who Are We? 27 3. Looking Out for Each Other 48 4. Navigating the Shoals of Race and Gender 74 5. Working the Networks 93 6. Growing and Grooming Leaders 116 7. Understanding the Political Landscape 137 VII VIII CONTENTS Part Two: Coming Together 165 8. Strategies for Black Managers 169 9. What Colleagues Need to Know 193 10. What Organizations Need to Know 209 Appendix: Assessing Your Political Savvy 221 References and Suggested Readings 226 Index 229 About the Center for Creative Leadership 237
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