Elaine Meryl Brown

Rich with accessible, no-nonsense wisdom, this invaluable guide shows women how to utilize their leadership ability and maximize their potential in all areas of their life. As "mentors in your pocket," three successful Black women executives--Elaine Meryl Brown, Marsha Haygood, and Rhonda Joy McLean--share their strategies for playing, and ultimately winning, the power game in corporate America. This updated edition of their 2009 classic The Little Black Book of Success offers all corporate professionals--from college students to entry level employees, senior executives to global leaders--across all industries advice to help them find success. Covering topics like navigating unconscious biases and microaggressions, managing a global workforce, returning to the office after years of remote work, and the importance of self-care, this edition has been optimized for today's culturally and politically complex world. Anchored in the wisdom of experience--navigating their own transitions from high powered corporate jobs to becoming entrepreneurs, authors, public speakers and community leaders--Brown, Haygood, and McLean share all they have learned (and wish they had known) so future generations of professionals can benefit and flourish at work and beyond.

Living by a strict set of rules in his tight-knit African-American community in the foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, Granddaddy Dunlap struggles to protect his granddaughter from being ostracized for marrying an outsider, a situation that is complicated when the young man is murdered. A first novel. Original.