Chicken on a Leash: Lessons in Strength of Mind - Softcover

Grimes-Frederick, Dorothea

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1403342946 ISBN 13: 9781403342942

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2003

Synopsis

The sibilant sound of 'Girl, you know you crazy!' resonates through our common airspace matter-of-factly. We grow up with different flavors of insanity all around. For our family it was great aunt Henrietta, who stopped wearing underwear because the Lord told her so. At least that is how she interpreted the Lord's divine message. Aunt Henrietta is proof that even the holiest require a personal crusade to stay sane. Chicken on a Leash: Lessons in Strength in Mind recognizes the challenges of growing into personal leadership - getting from there to here - sane. It is about one African American woman of color who reaches back into her childhood diary to see where her lessons in leadership began. To her amazement, leadership was rooted in the most insane, bizarre, or even violent moments. Susan Raleigh finds that life's path though littered with lessons in insanity, paved the way for purposeful leadership and strength of mind in every facet of her life from the bedroom to the boardroom. Readers will be able to wrestle with their own paths through the experiences of Dr. Susan Raleigh who eventually finds herself asking: 'How did I manage to grow up sane?' The answer is amply described in thirty personality-shaping events that she adeptly calls: Lessons in Strength of Mind.

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About the Author

Dorothea Grimes-Frederick is a Business Enhancement & Systems Engineering specialist. During her 20-year career in Fortune 500 companies, she has led major initiatives from R&D to Operations. She is recognized as a highly successful and respected problem solver and multifaceted leader with broad business experience. She received an undergraduate degree in Physics and masters and doctoral degrees in Science Education and the Psychology of Learning. After joining a world-renowned research laboratory, she became the first African-American woman ever promoted to a senior technical position in that organization's 100-year history. Dr. Grimes-Frederick brings unrivaled experience in change leadership. Her interview and frank dialogue with a group of African-American women executives was published in Working Woman magazine.

Synopsis

Looking for leaders in all the right places? Off the record-perhaps not, unless you are seriously and aggressively looking at Women of Color. African American Women of Color have unique experiences that catapult them into spaces less traveled by others. Spaces that breed leadership.

Edition details

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1403342946
• ISBN 13: 9781403342942
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 608