As an African American corporate employee Harvey J. Coleman thought his failure to break through the glass ceiling was race related. After being passed over one too many times, he broke with corporate America expecting to write the quintessential how-it-should-be-if-I-was-white book of upward mobility. After doing the research, much to his surprise, what he found was surprisingly different than what he originally thought. Refreshingly candid, Coleman's, Empowering Yourself, outlines the unwritten and unspoken rules of upward mobility. And once you understand the selection process and how it really works, you'll have some amazing aha moments. Coleman sheds light on the murky and illusory subtle paths of success with the Performance 10%, Image 20% and Exposure 70% (PIE) school of thought. Essentially, his premise; "upward mobility happens from the top down," states that the selection process involves three elements of unequal proportion: Performance, the initial consideration, represents 10% of the grading process. The question asked is: Are you GREAT; not good, but great at what you do? Image is the second consideration and it represents 20% of the grading process. At this point the selection process gets sticky. The question asked: Is your image palpable? Would you want to sit next to Dennis Rodman to dinner party? Probably not! Exposure is the last and most important element representing 70% of the process; essentially, who you know and who knows you. For those who haven't been properly groomed expect your eyes to be opened because you will not see things same after reading this book. If read with Class, by Paul Fussell and The Unwritten Rules of Management, by William H. Swanson, you have the makings of a nifty starting point. As Coleman says at the close of his book, "Now that you know the rules, let the games begin."