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Troy
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Username: Troy
Post Number: 314
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - 09:31 pm: | 
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"Leadership in Your Midst: Tapping the Hidden Strengths of Minority Executives"
by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Carolyn Buck Luce, and Cornel West
Minority professionals often hold leadership roles outside work, serving as pillars of their communities and churches and doing more than their share of mentoring. It's time their employers took notice of these invisible lives and saw them as sources of strength. Our new research underscores that the lives of minority professionals are rich with experience that goes unleveraged by their employers. But they also reveal a startling fact: These lives remain invisible largely by choice. For many reasons, minority professionals are reluctant to speak of their outside pursuits and accomplishments to colleagues and managers. We are left with a dual challenge: Companies can't leverage what they don't see - and they can't see what is purposely concealed. Case studies reveal innovative solution sets. (Harvard Business Review, November 2005)
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Troy
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Username: Troy
Post Number: 316
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - 10:01 pm: |
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Man, based upn my experience this is astonishingly true. I was really surprised to see this study because I never heard anyone articulate it.
While the slant on this story is to help corporate America recognize the talent they are swandering; I see it another way.
It is not unusual for a our brothers and sisters to sit on a board, run businesses, have leadership roles in outside organizations including not-for-profits, churches and other organizations. While the other man spends his weekends on the golf course...
What makes this even sadder is that these major corporations tell these same people they can't perform a role (and earn the income) that they could in their sleep.
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