Black Faces in White Places

10 Game-Changing Strategies to Achieve Success and Find Greatness

By: Randal D. Pinkett, Jeffrey A. Robinson, Philana Patterson

Narrated by: Ron Butler, Arnell Powel

Discover how African-American professionals can combine their personal strengths with the wisdom of others to plant the seeds of a positive, lasting legacy in the workplace.

Randal Pinkett was the first African-American winner on The Apprentice. When he won, he also became the only contestant to be asked to share his victory with a white woman.

For generations, African-Americans have been told that they need to work twice as hard as everyone else to succeed. However, as millions of black Americans were reminded by Pinkett's experience, sometimes hard work is not enough.

Black Faces in White Places is about "the game", the competitive world in which we all live and work. The book offers 10 revolutionary strategies for playing, mastering, and changing the game for the current generation, while undertaking a wholesale redefinition of the rules for those who will follow.

In this book, you will:

• Expand yourself beyond your comfort zone
• Recognize and demonstrate the four facets of excellence
• Build beneficial relationships and powerful networks
• Identify different mentors and learn from others' experiences
• Discover ways of working with others to facilitate collective action

Based on the authors' considerable experiences in business, in the public eye, and in the minority, the book shows how African-American professionals can (and must) think and act both entrepreneurially and "intrapreneurially".

Black Faces in White Places not only explains shattering the old "glass ceiling” and changing the concept of success, but also examines the four dimensions of the contemporary black experience: identity, society, meritocracy, and opportunity.

ONE TO STUDY

The best book i have ever read....besisdes the bible of course. this book is not only worth study but worth holding classes wear this book is the curriculum.

For youth it is a must read

This book is a must read for any African American young person who strives to achieve success. It is informative and packed full of recommendations for surviving and thriving in the world.

Phenomenal read for any person of color

Corporate America was never designed for black and brown Americans , if anything the entire premise of it was for us to get a degree, work very hard and never make it to the C-Suite

Well times are thankfully changing (glacially slow) and this book is the best book I have ever read on systematically walking Black and Brown people on how to learn the game, Play the game, dominate the game and ultimately go create you own game in regards to corporate America .

I knew Randall was something special on the 2004 Apprentice finale and watching Donald Trump try to sabotage him on national TV,, and it’s been amazing reading this book and learning from such a great entrepreneur and professional about how I dominate corporate America and go out and start your own business that dominates corporate America

Thank you!

Great book to expose black individuals to concepts and a community of black leadership in the corporate world in the absence of examples one may experience locally.

Absolute Masterpiece

Must read for any Black face aspiring not only to succeed in life, but build on the legacy of greatness in making America better.