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This is not a book about surviving corporate America.

Climbing While Black: The Unwritten Rules of Power, Politics, and Advancement in Corporate America is for every Black professional who has ever delivered exceptional work, played by the rules they were given, and still watched others move ahead and wondered why.

Written from the intersection of lived experience and hard-won wisdom, this book is part career roadmap, part cultural reckoning, and part declaration. It speaks directly to the professionals who were never taught the hidden curriculum that quietly shapes who gets promoted, who gets sponsored, who gets their name said in the rooms they're never invited into.

If you were the first in your family to walk through the doors of corporate America... If you've outperformed your peers and still been passed over... If you've felt the weight of being the only one in the room and the pressure of representing everyone who looks like you...This book was written for you.

Unlike traditional career books that hand you tactics without context, Climbing While Black names what most books refuse to acknowledge: that performance alone is not enough. That merit is inseparable from access. That the gap between Black professionals in the workforce and Black professionals in the executive suite is not a talent gap it is a structural one, maintained through informal networks, unspoken rules, and rooms where decisions are made before the meeting ever starts. Drawing from interviews with senior executives across industries this book maps the terrain most career guides refuse to draw.

A book with both strategy and soul

Through personal storytelling, candid interviews, and chapter reflections designed to provoke honest self-examination, the author does not offer a sanitized version of the climb. He tells the truth about the loneliness at certain altitudes. The imposter syndrome that doesn't disappear with the promotion. The political landmines that can damage a career even when the work succeeds. The cost of code-switching. The exhaustion of carrying the weight of representation while also trying to simply do the job.

And he tells the truth about something else: that the summit was never off limits. Climbing While Black doesn't promise that the system is fair. It promises something better which is a blueprint for navigating it with your integrity intact, your identity whole, and your community lifted alongside you.

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• Plný název: Climbing While Black
• Podnázev: The Unwritten Rules of Power, Politics, and Advancement in Corporate America
• Autor: Terrance Malone
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 194
• EAN: 9798256018184
• ID: 52753500
• Nakladatelství: Dear Legacy
• Hmotnost: 281 g
• Rozměry: 234 × 156 × 10 mm
• Datum vydání: 18. May 2026

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