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Lessons From the Battlefield

Mel Parker, vice president and general manager of the North America Consumer and Small Office Organization for Dell, knows firsthand that veterans moving into the corporate workforce face unique challenges, particularly in learning and adapting to a corporate culture that might not be as clear and definitive in workplace expectations as a military environment. But veterans also offer strategic benefits from their military experience.

How to Buy Black

When Chicagoans John and Maggie Anderson made a pledge to spend all of their income with black-owned businesses for an entire year, they launched a movement that would eventually become The Empowerment Experiment (www.eefortomorrow.com). The story of that year, 2009, has now been told in a new book by Maggie Anderson, Our Black Year: One Family’s Quest to Buy Black in America’s Racially Divided Economy (PublicAffairs; $25.99).

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