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Leadership Book
is Hoffer Award Finalist
April 12, 2008 (San Dimas, CA) Leadership:
Texas Hold em Style was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award.
According to the Executive Editor of Writers Notes & Best New Writing,
Christopher Klim, While it did not win a category distinction this year, it
fell within the top 10% of entrants to be considered for prizes. With respect to
the competition, we consider this an honor of its own merit. Less than 50 books
each year are dubbed with the title of Eric Hoffer Award Finalist.
About the Award
The Eric Hoffer Award honors the
memory of the great American philosopher Eric Hoffer by highlighting salient
writing. The Hoffer Award honors freethinking writers and independent books of
exceptional merit. The Hoffer honored books are chiefly from small, academic,
and micro presses, including self-published offerings. The books and prose of
the Hoffer Award are nominated by the people and judged by independent panels.
Since its inception as the Writers Notes Award, the Hoffer Award has grown in
prominence. Winners of the Hoffer are given prizes, honors, and worldwide
media exposure, as well as being covered in the annual anthology, Best New
Writing.
About the Leadership: Texas
Hold em Style
Using poker as analogy for
leadership, Captain
Andrew J. Harvey,
CPD (ret.), Ed.D. and Lieutenant
Raymond E. Foster,
LAPD (ret.), MPA
found the right mix of practical experience and academic credentials to write a
definitive book for leaders. Working together, Harvey and Foster have written
Leadership: Texas
Hold em Style. Most often leaders find they are given a set of
resources people, equipment, funds, experience and a mission. As Foster noted,
"You're dealt a certain hand. How you play that hand as a leader determines your
success."
About the Authors
Dr.
Andrew J. Harvey
served in
law enforcement for
25 years, the last 12 as a captain with a Southern California police agency. He
holds bachelors and masters degrees from Cal State Los Angeles, and an
educational doctorate in the field of organizational
leadership from
Pepperdine University. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy, the
California POST Command College, the West Point
Leadership Program,
and is recognized in California as a master instructor.
Dr. Harvey is an experienced
college educator, currently serving as a professor at the University of Phoenix,
and as a faculty advisor at the Union Institute and University. He has been
published numerous times in national and international publications. He is a
recognized expert in
leadership and
career development, and has served as an instructor in command
leadership at the
Los Angeles Police Department
Academy. He has appeared as a leadership authority on television and radio,
including the internationally-broadcast Bloomberg Business Television Show, and
the nationally syndicated Joey Reynolds Radio Show.
His first book, The Call
to Lead: How Ordinary People Become Extraordinary Leaders, received
national attention. The book shows the way for leaders toward ethical and
competent
leadership.
Through his company, Andrew Harvey Seminars, he provides
leadership training
and consulting to individuals and organizations throughout the nation.
Raymond E. Foster
was a sworn member of the
Los Angeles Police Department
for 24 years. He retired in 2003 at the rank of Lieutenant. He holds a
bachelors from the Union Institute and University in
Criminal Justice
Management and a Masters Degree in Public Financial Management from California
State University, Fullerton. He has completed his doctoral course work in
business research. Raymond is a graduate of the West Point
Leadership program
and has attended
law enforcement,
technology and
leadership programs such as the National Institute for Justice,
Technology
Institute, Washington, DC.
Raymond is currently a part-time
lecturer at California State University, Fullerton and the Union Institute and
University. He has experience teaching upper division courses in
law enforcement,
public policy,
technology and
leadership.
Raymond is an experienced author who has published numerous articles in a wide
range of venues including magazines such as Government
Technology, Mobile
Government, Airborne
Law Enforcement
Magazine, and Police One. He has appeared on the History Channel and radio
programs in the United States and Europe as subject matter expert in
technological applications in
law enforcement.
His first book, Police
Technology (Prentice Hall, July 2004) is used in
over 100 colleges and universities nationwide.
Contact Information
www.pokerleadership.com
editor@police-writers.com
909.599.7530
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