Annotated Bibliography
Turnock, Judith, and Cobbs, Price. Cracking the corporate code: the revealing success stories of 32 African American executives. New York: AMACOM publishers, 2003.
Turnock
and Cobbs take a unique approach in the analysis of the roles of minority
leaders in the corporate environment. This book assesses 32 corporate minority
leaders (mostly African Americans) through interviews and research and compiles
a set of their qualities, ambitions, personal life, challenges and experiences.
It further explores their ability to overcome the challenge of race through
building of strong working relations in their organizations. Moreover, Turnock
and Cobbs examine the influence of factors such as psychological upbringing,
individual personality, cultural background and level of motivation to the
development of leadership skills. Therefore, through recounting of previous
personal experiences of corporate minority leaders; the authors have managed to
change the corporate leadership mentality and hence motivated the aspiring
leaders.
Gabarro, John, and Thomas, David. Breaking through, the making of minority
executives in corporate America. Boston: Harvard business review press, 1999.
In
this book, the authors analyze the ability of people from the minority groups
to be successful in the corporate environment. Gabarro and David argue that even
though the American society boosts of being indiscriminate in the employment
opportunities, only a handful of minority group leaders make it to the top. In
this regard, the book focuses on the extra-ordinary qualities, leadership
skills and the educational qualifications of such minority leaders.
Additionally, Gabarro and David assess both the corporate and the societal effect
of having a person from the minority groups in the top management of an
organization. Therefore, this book is not only motivational to young minority
intellectuals, but outlines the required resilience and determination for
minority leaders to be successful in an unfavorable environment.
