Carolyn Grant

Are you a Legacy Leader? Between 2010 and 2017, headlines with the word 'crisis' and the name of one of the Forbes top 100 companies appeared 80 percent more often than in the previous decade. There is a leadership crisis in the world today. According to customers, employees, emerging leaders, the public, our communities, and our regulators, there is a significant disconnect between the current and traditional leadership and expectations models - the leadership gap. This book will show you the silver lining through more than a decade of crisis; the opportunity amongst uncertainty and volatility, because a new type of leadership has emerged - Legacy Leadership. This is leadership that drives personal and organisational resilience resulting in the ability to "bounce forward" rather than back in terms of emotional resilience, organisational agility and performance. This is an "easy to read" book with insights, challenges and frameworks to support and encourage current and emerging leaders in their pursuit of Legacy Leadership. The Legacy Leadership model is the result of insights from over 2,286 conversations with 762 global leaders over eight years. This book provides a compass for responsible and sustainable leadership that creates positive impacts in business performance, social and environmental impacts. Legacy Leadership has six core foundations which should be the focus of all leaders, emerging leaders, managers and influencers. They are the foundations upon which Legacy Leadership is based. With these foundations in place, the twelve principles provide the guidance in optimising decision-making when leaders are cognitively challenged. How do you want to be remembered?

The Gullah culture, though borne of isolation and slavery, thrived on the US East Coast sea islands from pre-Civil War times until today, and nowhere more prominently than on Hilton Head Island, SC. On this small barrier island descendants of the first generations of Gullah people continue to preserve Gullah language, customs, arts, and cuisine. The three authors of Gullah Days: Hilton Head Islanders Before the Bridge 1861-1956 are among those descendants, and in this book, they chronicle the amazing history of their secluded community from the Civil War through the 1950s, when real estate development connected Hilton Head Island to the mainland with a bridge. The history of these Gullah islanders, little celebrated until now, is an amazing American story. Hilton Head Island was one of the first areas liberated by Union troops after Fort Sumter. With plantation owners absent, the society of formerly enslaved Gullah people embarked on the activities of freedom: enlisting in fighting for the Union army; creating the first black-governed community in the South, complete with a police force; and, when formal emancipation arrived, running for office, campaigning, and voting. This book illustrates in vivid detail the story of that vibrant post-Civil War era and the tangled perils of Reconstruction that followed, along with all of the progress and setbacks of African Americans in the South over 150 years via the lives of Gullah Hilton Head Islanders. Authors rely on the historical records and amazing first-person accounts they have gathered from their relatives and other community members to tell this riveting story.