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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
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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