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- 11-11-2010
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By Christina A. Samuels/Education Week
Educators hoping to glean hints of the management style of media executive Cathleen P. Black, named Tuesday to lead the 1.1 million-student New York City schools, might turn to her best-selling management book, Basic Black, published three years ago. In the book, subtitled The Essential Guide for Getting Ahead at Work (and in Life), Ms. Black offers workplace tips for women, laced with anecdotes from her own life—as an advertising manager for Ms. magazine, the publisher and president of USA Today, and the president of Hearst Magazines, which publishes Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, Esquire, and other titles. Most of the advice has no tie to education until midway through the book, when she writes about finding “authenticity” in one’s work. (more…)
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