(ThyBlackMan.com) Black Faces In White Places is far more than a “how-to succeed in the corporate world” manual for African Americans. It not only explains in great and meaningful detail how to play the game, but how to get downright creative with it for your own tremendous benefit. Drs. Randall Pinkett and Jeffrey Robinson also provide a brilliant analysis of networking. You may think you know what a networks is, and how it functions, but after reading Black Faces In White Places, you will see that you do not. If for no other reason, read this book to maximize your professional and personal linkages for mutual benefit to you and your associates.
Many of us torment ourselves with the nagging query, “Should my endeavors primarily benefit me or the community?” Put another way, “Do those of us 
who have made it, owe a debt to those of us who have not?” The authors, in stunning fashion, reveal this to be an utterly false dichotomy. One can, and should, do both simultaneously. Instead of continuing to wrack yourself over what appears to be a terrible quandary, read this book and see not only how to help others as you help yourself, but how helping others actually helps yourself.
Another gem of wisdom found in Black Faces In White Places is the absolute need to “step outside your comfort zone.” We must, each of us, step out of the comfortable routines and circles we find ourselves in and open up to new people and new challenges, not just for the sake of our financial well-being, but for our emotional and psychological health as well.
In short, Pinkett and Robinson are two highly educated, very successful, very well adjusted, young men much admired within, and without, the community. Reading their step-by-step recitation of how they got to where they are, by diligently working in concert with others, reminded me very much of The Pact, the biography of the three doctors (Sampson Davis, George Jenkins and Rameck Hunt) who together made it from the streets of Newark to the top of the medical profession. And like the three doctors, Pinkett and Robinson have continued to open up broad vistas, as well as individual doors, for a host of others. Black Faces in White Places is but their latest attempt to generously share their knowledge, experience and vision with us all.
