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Intelligence Isn't Enough: A Black Professional’s Guide to Thriving in the Workplace

Intelligence Isn't Enough: A Black Professional’s Guide to Thriving in the Workplace

Current price: $18.95
Publication Date: October 18th, 2022
Publisher:
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN:
9781523002672
Pages:
296

Description

Master the balance between working on your career and working in it. Intelligence Isn’t Enough helps Black professionals make strategic decisions and learn the unspoken rules for success.

Recounting the frustration she felt as a young Black woman beginning her career, Carice Anderson knows that many Black professionals are relying on their education and intellect alone to be successful in the workplace. In this book, she empowers young Black professionals by equipping them with advice and little-known principles of career success from her experiences and interviews with thirty successful Black leaders.

Intelligence Isn’t Enough is divided into six chapters that guide readers through what Anderson calls the three “major corporate muscle groups”:

  • Knowing yourself— understanding your story and investigating your mindset
  • Knowing others—building and sustaining important relationships in the workplace
  • Knowing your environment—analyzing your organization’s culture

Anderson will teach you how to integrate the knowledge of these three groups to craft an authentic personal brand and communication style that will help you maximize your impact.

Using personal stories, quotes, lessons learned, and advice from both the author and Black leaders who have worked in some of the finest institutions across North America, Africa, and Europe, Black professionals will learn tips and tools to strategically chart their career paths and advance in the workplace for lifelong success.

About the Author

Carice Anderson is a Director in Leadership and Manager Development for a leading asset management firm, and she lives in Atlanta. Anderson has an MBA from Harvard Business School and she worked for Aon-Hewitt, Deloitte, Korn Ferry and McKinsey & Company. During her time at McKinsey & Company, she worked as a professional development manager, where she managed a leadership development program for young Black professionals. Anderson has presented her insights and worked as a leadership consultant, facilitator and coach for top companies like Google, Bloomberg, Accenture, J P Morgan Chase, Bain & Company and Publicis Media.

Praise for Intelligence Isn't Enough: A Black Professional’s Guide to Thriving in the Workplace

Intelligence Isn’t Enough is an instruction manual and tool kit that gives Black professionals the insights that are often out of their reach.”
—Cecil Johnson, talent development director, Fortune 50 company

“A great source if you are ready to level up beyond intelligence.”
—Frances X. Frei, UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management, Harvard Business School
 
“I often tell young professionals that they do have many choices, but they have to prepare themselves to navigate those choices and the opportunities that follow. Intelligence Isn’t Enough does just that for young professionals.”
—Susan Chapman-Hughes, former Executive Vice President, Global Head of Digital Capabilities, Transformation, and Operations, Global Commercial Services, American Express

“Carice Anderson has crafted a career map for young professionals who have nothing but blue sky ahead of them. Many helpful lessons flow from insights drawn from her own impressive career.”
—Martin Davidson, Global Chief Diversity Officer and Johnson and Higgins Professor of Business Administration, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia