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Salsa, Soul, and Spirit by Juana Bordas
Leadership for a Multicultural Age
- Identifies eight core leadership principles common to Latino, African-American, and American Indian cultures
- Demonstrates how incorporating these principles into mainstream leadership practice will create a more effective and inclusive style of leadership
- Combines personal reflections, interviews with community leaders, historical background and contemporary case examples
"What a remarkable contribution Salsa, Soul, and Spirit makes to leaders in all three sectors as they work to provide rich diversity, powerful inclusion, and equal access within the organization and in society beyond the walls."
Frances Hesselbein – Chairman, Leader to Leader Institute
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Tapping the potential of the changing workforce, consumer base and citizenry requires a leadership approach that resonates with our country's growing diversity. In Salsa, Soul, and Spirit, Juana Bordas shows how incorporating Latino, African-American, and American Indian approaches to leadership into the mainstream has the potential to strengthen leadership practice and inspire today's ethnically rich workforce.
Bordas identifies eight core leadership principles common to all three cultures, principles deeply rooted in each culture's values and developed under the most trying conditions. Using a lively blend of personal reflections, interviews with leaders from each community, historical background, and insightful analysis, she shows how these principles were developed and illustrates the creative ways they've been put into practice in these communities, as well as in some forward-looking companies. Bordas brings these principles together into a multicultural leadership model that offers a more flexible and inclusive way to lead and a new vision of the role of the leader in the organization.
Multicultural leadership resonates with many cultures and encourages diverse people to actively engage, contribute and tap their potential. In a globalized economy, success for leaders in the future will rest on their ability to shift to a multicultural approach. Salsa, Soul, and Spirit provides conceptual and practical guidelines for beginning that process.
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