Lead from the Outside, Stacey Abrams
Lead from the Outside, Stacey Abrams
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Lead from the Outside
How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change

Bestseller

Author: Stacey Abrams

Narrator: Stacey Abrams

Unabridged: 7 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/24/2018


Synopsis

*This program was previously published as Lead from the Outside . This updated edition includes a new preface written and read by Stacey Abrams.*

"Abrams's own grit, coupled with her descriptions of much stumbling and self-doubt, will make [Lead from the Outside] touch you in a way few books by politicians can." — The New York Times

National leader Stacey Abrams has written the guide to harnessing the strengths of being an outsider and succeeding anyway.

Leadership is hard. Convincing others—and yourself—that you are capable of taking charge and achieving more requires insight and courage. Lead from the Outside is the handbook for outsiders, written with an eye toward the challenges that hinder women, people of color, the working class, members of the LGBTQ community, and millennials ready to make change.

Stacey uses her hard-won insights to break down how ambition, fear, money, and failure function in leadership, and she includes practical exercises to help you realize your own ambition and hone your skills. Lead from the Outside discusses candidly what Stacey has learned over the course of her impressive career in politics, business and the nonprofit world: that differences in race, gender, and class provide vital strength, which we can employ to rise to the top and create real and lasting change.

About Stacey Abrams

Stacey Abrams is an author, serial entrepreneur, nonprofit CEO and political leader. After eleven years in the Georgia House of Representatives, seven as Minority Leader, Abrams became the 2018 Democratic nominee for Governor of Georgia, where she won more votes than any other Democrat in the state’s history. She has founded multiple organizations devoted to voting rights, training and hiring young people of color, and tackling social issues at both the state and national levels; and she is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Abrams is the 2012 recipient of the John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award and the first black woman to become the gubernatorial nominee for a major party in the United States.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jean on February 03, 2019

This book is primarily a statement of policy and philosophy and less of a memoir. I was impressed how highly educated Stacey Abrams is. She went to Spelman College and obtained a law degree from Yale University. She was a Harry S. Truman Scholar studying public policy at the University of Texas at A......more

Goodreads review by Trish on June 12, 2019

Stacey Abrams learned not always to kick right at her goal. Watching her stand back and assess a situation can be a fearsome thing. You know she is going to do something oh-so-effective and she is going to use her team to get there, those who mentored her and those she mentored herself. I just love......more

Goodreads review by Kelley on February 15, 2019

I was not expecting this book to be good. I picked it up because I voted for Abrams. Then she lost to that shameful cheat who rigged the election (no seriously - google it. Georgia should hang its head in shame until they fix the crazy loophole that allows someone to run in an election while also su......more

Goodreads review by alex on November 17, 2018

as i write this review, stacey abrams has recently announced that she is ending her race for governor of georgia and that brian kemp will become governor. for the past six months i've worked on stacey abrams' campaign as an intern, and it was an incredible experience. this book was deeply insightful,......more

Goodreads review by H. on July 14, 2020

I have mixed feelings about this book. Firstly, Abrams is an extremely impressive person, and I'm glad to know more about a politician I have supported and will continue to support. The content itself is what I have mixed feelings about. On one hand, this book would be useful and inspirational for a......more