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Essay on Most likely to Succeed at Work
Introduction
The title quite much says it all in this business and self-help manual by business communications coaches Davidson along with Dougherty. Using high school stereotype found in teen movies, if not real high schools, the author tries to disclose the secrets to office achievement by proposing taxonomy of types. For example, there's the Jock, who "favors sports analogies" (Davidson, & Dougherty, 2003) in conversation and is a team player; the Brown-noser, who hides his lack of ability beneath a never-ending stream of obsequiousness; and the approval-seeking Thespian, who may be temperamental but is quick on his feet. Davidson and Dougherty specify how to steer relationships with these types and many others, including the Class Clown, Cheerleader, the Geek and the Party Animal, and propose what to do if you may be one of these sorts yourself.
Their place is not unreasonable-high school social occurrences are very determining, after all-but it supposes that people have fallen short to mature or change in the years between school and work; in addition, the authors work so hard to make their case that they finish up letting down it through overstatements for instance "high school is merely a lab for the rest of our life” (Davidson, & Dougherty, 2003).
It may strike some readers that this breakdown of types, particularly for high school, is excessively complex with too narrow of differences. Characteristically, in high schools there are smart kids, jocks, cheerleaders, and regular kids. The negativities that the authors dispute are not clearly supported. However, high school cliques can be far more cruelly imposed than among co-workers. An area that the authors do not go close to is the impact of family wealth in distinguishing high school kids. The pecking arrangment in high school mostly matches to social-standing in the greater community.........
