Kirstine Stewart Our Turn Summary

The book I’ve read is called Our Turn, written by Kirstine Stewart. The overall theme to this book is accomplishment. Throughout the novel, the author mixes together her story and personal experiences with a blueprint of how to be successful. It also deals with the equality of women and man and the journey of how that affects the workplace environment. In these pages, she graces us with her knowledge and shares her personal success story with a mix of statistics and humor; a perfect combination to make this book truly interesting.

The book talks about the highs and lows Kirstine has to face throughout her career. It focused on her starting off as an intern, known as Girl Friday to the Vice President of Twitter. She talked about the different shows she produced and the risks she had to take throughout. Being a female in her workforce was one thing but being severely successful seemed to be such a crazy thing for most people to understand. She showed that being a female is hard but, anything is achievable and she’s

“When I thought about it later, it struck me that, like that young woman, we all have opportunities to step up, to contribute and show initiative in the workplace. You don’t have to be a boss to be a leader. You can lead an industry, a company, a division, or even a project of just one-- you. When you seize those opportunities, you are leading. The more you act like a leader, the more you learn to be one. And the more you will be seen as one. Like strengthening a muscle, it just takes practice.” (Stewart 99) I made a personal connection to this because I feel like everyone in the business world gets caught up with the idea of being a leader and having the power that comes along with that title that people forget that by applying yourself and seizing any moments that come your way can make you just as good as a leader as anyone