Cracking the Corporate Code
From Survival to Mastery
Real Stories of African-American Success

Cracking the Corporate Code, From Survival to Mastery highlights the everyday stories, professional strategies, and lessons learned of 32 African American executives who have excelled in the corporate business arena. By a variety of paths, these 21 men and 11 women - all members of the Executive Leadership Council - entered the predominantly white and sometimes hostile terrain of corporate America and developed the strategies and insights needed to crack the unwritten corporate code that opened doors to prestige, wealth, public influence and professional success.

In stories told largely in their own words, the executives honestly and humbly relate some of the obstacles faced as they evolved from mere survivors in the corporate workplace to confident leaders.

Viewed through the insights of long-time ELC consultants and authors Judith Turnock and Price M. Cobbs, M.D. - moderator of the Mid-Level Managers' Symposium from which the book was developed - the authors deftly capture the heart and spirit of ELC through the lives of these members. The anecdotes are witty and sad, contemplative and casual, but always insightful. While Cracking the Corporate Code records a uniquely African-American perspective, its message is about the human spirit and its capacity to dream and achieve.

Through stories that read like personal conversations, readers are invited to engage in dialogue with ELC members by using their messages to spark your own self talk or facilitate group conversation. Scholars and students, executives and staff members, will all find this book equally compelling.

Copies of Cracking the Corporate Code can be ordered from both Amazon.Com and ELC.

Cracking the Corporate Code, From Survival to Mastery is the first book published by the Executive Leadership Council. It highlights 32 of the men and women who are working through ELC to literally transform the face of corporate America by developing the Next Generation of African-American executives and by making the corporate climate more Pro Mosaic.

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