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Articles Case Study

Articles:
Ethical Ambition-Living a Life of Meaning and Worth, Derrick Bell

Leadership in Your Midst: Tapping the Hidden Strengths of Minority Executives,”  Harvard Business Review, November 2005 Harvard Leadership Article

Other Reading Resources:

Doing What’s Right: How to fight for what you believe and make a difference, Tavis Smiley 2000
Target Chapters:

  1. Ch. 3- What are you waiting for? Why people don’t advocate.
  2. Ch. 6- Don’t fight harder, Fight smarter.
  3. Ch. 7- Contributing— Putting your 2 cents in.

The Covenant, Introduction by Tavis Smiley, 2006
Target Chapters:

  1. VI- Claiming our Democracy, Essay by Wade Henderson
  2. VIII- Assessing Good Jobs, Wealth and Economic Prosperity, Essay by Marc Morial
  3. X- Closing the Racial Digital Divide, Essay by  Tyrone Taborn


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