CHAPTER 8
Power Ambivalence:The Achilles Heel
Lavarse las manos del conflicto entre los medios poderosos y los impotentes al lado de los poderosos, no es ser neutral.
Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
—Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator and philosopher
So far, our exploration of Latino executive success has been a story of onward and upward. The leaders we interviewed have been inspirational. They have overcome a myriad of societal and organizational biases by optimizing their resilience, hard work, and ambition, as well as by coming to terms with their cultural identity.
However, in our research we saw a consistent uncomfortable theme that could be one ...
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