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Anti-Racist Leadership
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Anti-Racist Leadership

by James D. White, Krista White
March 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 41m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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1 Intentional Leadership Matters

It was late May 2020, a time when people of every color were defying the Covid-19 pandemic to take to the streets to show their outrage. On Memorial Day, May 25, in Minneapolis, seventeen-year-old Darnella Frazier used her smartphone to capture a full video of police officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd’s neck for nine minutes, until Floyd died, after he’d been stopped on suspicion of using a counterfeit $20 bill to buy cigarettes. It was only the latest in thousands of similar incidents throughout history—but this time change was brewing, even in the corporate world.

I could tell that something was different by the sheer volume of calls and emails I was getting from business leaders expressing a ...

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ISBN: 9781647821982