Leadership in Your Midst: Tapping the Hidden Strengths of Minority Executives

by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Carolyn Buck Luce and Cornel West

From the Magazine (November 2005)

Summary.

All companies value leadership—some of them enough to invest dearly in cultivating it. But few management teams seem to value one engine of leadership development that is right under their noses, churning out the kind of talent they need most. We’re referring to the deeply substantive outside lives of their minority executives.

A version of this article appeared in the November 2005 issue of Harvard Business Review.

Sylvia Ann Hewlett is an economist, the CEO of Hewlett Consulting Partners, and an award-winning author whose books include The Sponsor Effect: How to Be a Better Leader by Investing in Others and Executive Presence 2.0: Leadership in an Age of Inclusion. She is also the founder and chair emeritus of the think tank Coqual.

Carolyn Buck Luce is executive in residence at Center for Talent Innovation and senior managing director at Hewlett Consulting Partners. She is an adjunct professor at Columbia’s Graduate School of International and Public Affairs and was previously the Global Pharmaceutical Sector Leader at Ernst & Young LLP.

Cornel West is the Class of 1943 University Professor of Religion at Princeton University in New Jersey. The authors are founding members of the Hidden Brain Drain task force.

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Leadership in Your Midst: Tapping the Hidden Strengths of Minority Executives

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