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PublishAmerica Presents Taking Charge by Charles Ray

Frederick, MD March 31, 2009 -- PublishAmerica is proud to present Taking Charge: Effective Leadership for the Twenty-First Century by Charles Ray.

In the turbulent twenty-first century, we need enlightened leadership more than ever before. In board rooms and in command centers, from the White House to each state house, we need leaders who are focused on getting the job done. In Taking Charge, Charles Ray offers some principles and techniques of effective leadership based on his twenty years of military service and over twenty years as a civilian government official, combined with the commonsense, practical philosophy of his rural east Texas upbringing, as previously described in his book, Things I Learned from My Grandmother About Leadership and Life. This is not theory; it is a description of what works - has worked - illustrated with real-life examples of what truly effective leadership really is.

Charles Ray served in the Army from 1962 to 1982. Upon retirement in 1982, he joined the U.S. Foreign Service, and has served in leadership positions in diplomatic posts in Asia and Africa, and in senior positions in Washington, DC. He was the first U.S. Consul General in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and Ambassador to Cambodia. He most recently served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for POW/Missing Personnel Affairs. Mr. Ray lives in North Potomac, Maryland, with his wife, Myung, and a Pekinese named Chong.

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