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050 00$aE185.93.G4$bA27 2018
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100 1 $aAbrams, Stacey,$eauthor.
245 10$aMinority leader :$bhow to lead from the outside and make real change /$cStacey Abrams.
246 3 $aHow to lead from the outside and make real change.
250 $aFirst edition.
260 $aNew York, New York :$bHenry Holt and Company,$c2018.
300 $axxiv, 226 p. ;$c22 cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aDare to want more -- Fear and otherness -- Hacking and owning opportunity -- The myth of mentors -- Money matters -- Prepare to win and embrace the fail -- Making what you have work -- Work-life Jenga -- Taking power.
520 $a"Minority Leader is a guide to harnessing the strengths of being an outsider by Stacey Abrams, slated to become the first black female governor in the U.S. Networking, persistence, and hard work are the crucial ingredients to advancing a career, but for people like Stacey Abrams, and many in the New American Majority, it takes more than that to get ahead. Stacey, who grew up in a working poor family in Gulfport, Mississippi, rose from humble roots to Yale Law School, and through a career in C-suite businesses, to become the first woman to lead either party in the Georgia General Assembly and the first African American to lead in the House of Representatives. In Minority Leader, Stacey combines aspects of memoir with real-world advice for women and people of color, offering hard-won insights for navigating worlds that, until now, were largely the territory of white men alone. Stacey encourages her readers both to leverage otherness to their advantage and to recognize their own underlying feelings of unworthiness and legitimate fears. Sure, networking helps, but so do well-chosen mentors, thoughtful self-advocacy, and, above all, pinpointing one's genuine passions. Stacey applies her lessons to the recent graduate taking her big idea to the startup level, the Latino city councilman eyeing the mayor's office, and the young assistant navigating her way to a higher position. There is precious little such wisdom out there. Stacey is determined to change that."--Provided by publisher.
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650 0$aPolitical participation.
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