The Worth of the Individual, the Value of Work, and the Power of the Mind: An Unconventional Southerner on Business, Race, Religion, and Self - Hardcover

Allmon, Joseph T

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 145356862X ISBN 13: 9781453568620

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation, 2010

Synopsis

This volume contains the unpublished writings of the late Joe Allmon, edited by his son, Warren. Joe Allmon grew up poor in Depression-era Mississippi, and became a Baptist minister like his father. But he suffered a crisis of faith as a young man, and switched careers to become a human resources executive, applying many of the counseling skills he had developed in the ministry. His life in corporate America, however, was unusual. As the writings collected here eloquently demonstrate, he was always in the process of becoming something else and expanding whatever mold he was in.

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About the Author

Joseph T. Allmon (1921-2007) was a human resources executive for Riegel Textile Corporation for more than 30 years. He was also a former Baptist minister who became a Unitarian, a white southerner who became a progressive advocate for civil rights, and a corporation man who was always a thinker and scholar. A native of Mississippi, he was a resident of Greenville, South Carolina for most of his adult life. Warren D. Allmon is Joe Allmon's son. He is the Director of the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, New York and Hunter R. Rawlings III Professor of Paleontology at Cornell University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 145356862X
• ISBN 13: 9781453568620
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 592