From the library
The Black Count
Tom Reiss, 2012
In one paragraph
The extraordinary true story of General Alex Dumas, the father of Alexandre Dumas and the highest-ranking black officer in the Western world until the 20th century.
Also tagged
Where this sits in the operating system
People & Relationships
Compound Leverage
Key insights
The life behind The Count of Monte Cristo was Dumas's father, and the revenge plot was closer to biography than invention.
A Black general in revolutionary France, then erased as the Napoleonic order re-imposed racial hierarchy.
A study in how a system can open and close within a single career, and what that does to the person inside it.
Recognise it early
The failure and the correction sit side by side deliberately. Read the left column asking whether any of it is already true of you.
Allowing discrimination to create self-doubt
Responding to prejudice with anger instead of excellence
Compromising integrity for temporary advantage
Building teams based on similarity instead of merit
Seeking approval instead of demonstrating competence
The same idea, argued differently
Ben Horowitz
The full breakdown
Before you close this
Naming the specific moment you will act roughly doubles the odds you do.
Reference
- Author
- Tom Reiss
- Published
- 2012
- Category
- Biography
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