Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change
Written by Stacey Abrams
Narrated by Stacey Abrams
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About this audiobook
*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.
Editor's Note
At the polls…
Georgia's gubernatorial race was one of the most closely-watched elections this year. Stacey Abrams’ inspiring memoir of the path she took to come so close to being America's first black female governor dives into why this election touched so many across the country.
Stacey Abrams
Stacey Abrams is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Rogue Justice, While Justice Sleeps, Our Time is Now, Lead from the Outside, and the NAACP Image Award winners Stacey’s Extraordinary Words and Stacey’s Remarkable Books. She is also an entrepreneur and a political leader. A tax attorney by training, she served eleven years in the Georgia House of Representatives, seven as Minority Leader. She has launched multiple organizations devoted to voting rights, training and hiring young people of color, and tackling social issues at the state, national, and international levels. Committed to the pursuit of equity, she works to break barriers for young people, people of color, and the marginalized through her work in politics as well as the nonprofit and corporate sectors. She has received degrees from Spelman College, the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, and Yale Law School.
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Reviews for Lead from the Outside
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Foundational training for leadership, positive mangement traing and life learner. Taking the 'jenga of life' and learning from persons and experiences in your life, trusting the leap inside yourself to met your future self and understanding selflove enables you to project what others see. Stacey blessed my life with this book! Must audio/read!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Really well written, this is truly a guidebook for minorities on gaining power in a variety of circumstances.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Author is inspiring, down to Earth and entertaining. I truly enjoyed the content of this book. Great read for all
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5So refreshing to hear a new perspective on leadership! A must read for young leaders!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent book for everyone about winning when the odds are not in your favor. Great advice on everything from finances to finding mentors.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very inspirational and very informative concerning what leadership is all about
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5As usual, Stacey Abrams delivers a practical and powerful plan for how to break through obstacles, step into your greatness and create change.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Rep. Abrams is insightful and frank in Minority Leader about the challenges faced by people with minority status when fighting for their community and seeking leadership. This book was helpful in guiding my experience and the choices in my future path. I look forward to her tenure as President Abrams.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is the kind of book you keep in rotation and read every couple years. I plan to utilize the worksheets to map my goals and strategized! I feel empowered to make some moves in my life and community! Awesome read!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Covers so many topics conventional leadership books don’t such as financial literacy, family obligations and self-care. Written for historically marginalized people, but lessons for everyone.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Omg as a black woman in politics I loved this! Awesome book
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Absolutely powerful! It injects in you the the belief that anything is possible if you put your mind and the efforts to accomplish your goals! Phenomenal book. Phenomenal woman. Thank you!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A brilliant exploration of the process of pursuing goals. Loved it!