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The Next Little Black Book of Success: New Laws of Leadership for Black Women
Rich with accessible, no-nonsense wisdom, this invaluable guide shows women how to utilize their leadership ability and maximize their potential in all areas of their life.
As “mentors in your pocket,” three successful Black women executives—Elaine Meryl Brown, Marsha Haygood, and Rhonda Joy McLean—share their strategies for playing, and ultimately winning, the power game in corporate America. This updated edition of their 2009 classic The Little Black Book of Success offers all corporate professionals—from college students to entry level employees, senior executives to global leaders—across all industries advice to help them find success. Covering topics like navigating unconscious biases and microaggressions, managing a global workforce, returning to the office after years of remote work, and the importance of self-care, this edition has been optimized for today's culturally and politically complex world.
Anchored in the wisdom of experience—navigating their own transitions from high powered corporate jobs to becoming entrepreneurs, authors, public speakers and community leaders—Brown, Haygood, and McLean share all they have learned (and wish they had known) so future generations of professionals can benefit and flourish at work and beyond.
As “mentors in your pocket,” three successful Black women executives—Elaine Meryl Brown, Marsha Haygood, and Rhonda Joy McLean—share their strategies for playing, and ultimately winning, the power game in corporate America. This updated edition of their 2009 classic The Little Black Book of Success offers all corporate professionals—from college students to entry level employees, senior executives to global leaders—across all industries advice to help them find success. Covering topics like navigating unconscious biases and microaggressions, managing a global workforce, returning to the office after years of remote work, and the importance of self-care, this edition has been optimized for today's culturally and politically complex world.
Anchored in the wisdom of experience—navigating their own transitions from high powered corporate jobs to becoming entrepreneurs, authors, public speakers and community leaders—Brown, Haygood, and McLean share all they have learned (and wish they had known) so future generations of professionals can benefit and flourish at work and beyond.
176 pages, Hardcover
Published January 13, 2026
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Elaine Meryl Brown
10 books8 followersRHONDA JOY MCLEAN is Deputy General Counsel of Time Inc. and former Assistant Regional Director of the Northeast Region of the Federal Trade Commission. A graduate of Yale Law School, she served as chair of its alumni association, which has more than 10,000 members, and was recently elected to its fund board of directors. In 2007, McLean was chosen as one of The Network Journals 25 Influential Black Women in Business. Born in Chicago, IL and reared in Smithfield, NC, McLean is a classically trained pianist and mezzo-soprano. She performs sacred music with chorales throughout the New York metropolitan area, where she resides."
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