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A review by poenaestante
Executive Presence: The Missing Link Between Merit and Success by Sylvia Ann Hewlett
4.0
This book is a vital and urgent read for anyone -- most notably anyone in an underindexed category like black, queer, or female -- who is or aspires to be in leadership in a traditional, hierarchical organization. This book uses data, research, and anecdotes to give you the formula for how to comport yourself to be perceived as a leader or potential leader.
With the code shippe, she also doesn't shy away from the fact that the way the world is right now is deeply unfair to us underindexed folks. I think her hope is that by getting more of us into leadership that that can be transformed. I think that hope is wrongheaded but I'm not mad at her for having it. This kind of reformism is the animating spirit for bandaids of all sorts. Bandaids don't heal but they can sometimes help stop the bleeding.
A VITAL read also for white dudes who aspire to be allies but are doing it mostly on the wings of a sense of wanting to be "a good white person". Arm yourself with a little information here....and then go read some Robin DiAngelo and Ta'Nehisi Coates.
With the code shippe, she also doesn't shy away from the fact that the way the world is right now is deeply unfair to us underindexed folks. I think her hope is that by getting more of us into leadership that that can be transformed. I think that hope is wrongheaded but I'm not mad at her for having it. This kind of reformism is the animating spirit for bandaids of all sorts. Bandaids don't heal but they can sometimes help stop the bleeding.
A VITAL read also for white dudes who aspire to be allies but are doing it mostly on the wings of a sense of wanting to be "a good white person". Arm yourself with a little information here....and then go read some Robin DiAngelo and Ta'Nehisi Coates.