Salsa, Soul, and Spirit: Leadership for a Multicultural Age
by Juana Bordas
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9781576754320 |
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
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 practices 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, and historical background, she shows how these principles developed and illustrates the creative ways they’ve been put into practice in these communities (and 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. 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.
Book News Annotation:
Consultant Bordas describes a multicultural model of leadership that
incorporates traditional Latino, African American, and American
Indian concepts and practices. She describes eight core leadership
principles that are common to all three cultures. These include (for
example) generosity, community conferred leadership, and universal
kinship. The material is based in part on interviews conducted with
such visionary leaders as Ada Deer (first woman to head the U.S.
Bureau of Indian Affairs) and Raul Yzaguirre (founder of the Hispanic
Association for Corporate Responsibility). Bordas is President of
Mestiza Leadership International.
Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Synopsis:
The only book that presents a multicultural leadership model that integrates eight practices from African-American, American Indian, and Latino communities, instead of the heavily or exclusively Anglo-American based concepts of leadership.
Synopsis:
As the world becomes flatter and globalization creates a world village, it is imperative that leaders have the cultural flexibility and adaptability to inspire and guide people from very distinct backgrounds that represents the whole rainbow of humanity. Salsa, Soul and Spirit: Leadership for a Multicultural Nation puts forth a multicultural leadership model that integrates eight practices from African American, Indian and Latino communities. Using principles such as ?Sankofa ? the ability to learn from the past?, ?I to We ? From Individualism to collective identity?, and ?Mi casa es su casa ?Developing a generosity of spirit?, this model offers leaders new approaches that will increase their interpersonal effectiveness with diverse populations by incorporating the influences, practices and values of a variety of cultures in a respectful and productive manner.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9781576754320
- Subtitle:
- Leadership for a Multicultural Age
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Berrett-Koehler Publishers
- Subject:
- Leadership
- Subject:
- Indians of north america
- Subject:
- Hispanic americans
- Publication Date:
- April 2007
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 226
- Dimensions:
- 9.24x7.35x.64 in. .94 lbs.











