Review of “It's All Politics”

Review of “It's All Politics”

Review of “It is All Politics”

Author Review - Her Background in Leadership

The author of this manuscript is Kathleen Kelley Reardon. She is a lecturer of administration at the Marshall School of Business at University of Southern California, a renowned business meeting spokesperson and the creator of The Secret Handshake. She had also emerged on electronic and print media via various television programs and several journals nationwide. She clutched the recognition of scripting seven books, which incorporates “The Secret Handshake” and “It is All Politics” which is in relevance to the effects of office politics upon the careers of professional people and upon the missions of organizations as well. She had also remained joint principal investigator and writer on the study that initiated Star Bright that was chaired by Steven Spielberg afterwards and handled by the approach of Starlight as well. She also wrote “Persuasion in Practice” and remained the Harvard Business Review author for thrice. Her latest artistic exertion is “Courage at Work.” The author received her Ph.D. qualification from UMASS, Amherst, and has worked as political forecaster in the company of The Huffington Post.

Overview of the book

Being an advisor and administration lecturer, the author illuminates in her spectacular exertion “It is All Politics” that only hard work and talent, are not enough for touching the peak in professional career. There is a very thin line among the winners and losers in business, i.e. politics.

In accordance with the author's work, the most dazzling and dexterous workforce are often left behind in comparison to their politically adept colleagues. The reason is that they fail to manage the important relations with the people capable of giving the best prize to their creativeness and brains. Reardon makes the audiences ask themselves the following questions to gauge their efficiency in office politics:

• Do I receive praise for my ideas?• Am I capable of managing a difficult coworker?• Can I project the outcomes accurately?• Do I have a listening ear?• Do I say no elegantly and compete with ease?• Am I in the loop?

The author has had a conversation with hundreds of workers, from high achievers to high aimers, probing why some hard working personnel at their jobs lag behind, as compared to their contemporaries who carry a better insight to move forward and promotion. Opinionated adroitness does not signify being crooked or devious. Rather it means paying attention and linking to others, and making moves so as to advance everyone's aims. Advancing on the work has a lot to do with politics. And politics revolves around having a good hold of what to say, whom to say it, when to say, and how to say it (Reardon, 2005).

In order to keep oneself at a safer side in a work place, one must be able to handle the manner in which the talks are taken by the observers. The “politically smart”, as remarked by the opinion of author, and further illustration that ...