I am still reading this book by my friend and Operation HOPE Partner Jim Clifton, chairman and CEO of Gallup, but already I now this -- this book (THE COMING JOBS WAR) changes everything. It changes a nation's and its leaders approach to public policy, to civil engagement, to job creation, to growing a nation's GDP -- and to what comes next o the other side of this global economic crisis.
I am proud to be a partner with Jim Clifton and Gallup in the Gallup-HOPE Index, and I am honored that Operation HOPE and our work is also featured in Jim's groundbreaking new book. Look for Jim Clifton and I to collaborate strongly in 2012 as we "talk in" the power of both the theories incorporated in the Index, as well as this important book.
Stay tuned, and READ THIS BOOK!
John Hope Bryant is a thought leader, founder, chairman and CEO of Operation HOPE and Bryant Group Companies, Inc. Magazine/CEO READ bestselling business author of LOVE LEADERSHIP: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World (Jossey-Bass) the only African-American bestselling business author in America, and a Member of the U.S. President’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability for President Barack Obama. Mr. Bryant is the co-founder of the Gallup-HOPE Index, the only national research poll on youth financial dignity and youth economic energy in the U.S. He is also a co-founder of Global Dignity with HRH Crown Prince Haakon of Norway and Professor Pekka Himanen of Finland. Global Dignity is affiliated with the Forum of Young Global Leaders and the World Economic Forum.















Why I Do What I Do
I do it for THIS reason. To see THIS expression on a young person's face. Just look at this ~ it is literally priceless. And all I had to do here was to sign and give him a copy of my bestselling business book LOVE LEADERSHIP: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World (Jossey-Bass). Did you "get" what I just said? I gave the young man a BUSINESS book. Not fiction (all good by the way), or a comic, or some rap lyrics (all good too). But a book on business and leadership, and inspired in the right way, this young man just lit up like a Christmas tree.
This is why I do what I do, and why I believe so passionately in our work in financial dignity at Operation HOPE, and the promise of the silver rights movement.
Our young people increasingly don't have something tangible of even aspirational to believe in, and as a result, we are losing them.
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