Meeting of the Minds: At The End of the Day We Are Better For the Experience provides a capstone experience for students majoring in business focusing on ethics and ethical interdisciplinary business strategic decision-making.
- Is an innovative common sense approach about the delivery of a growth-oriented learning experience.
- Is based off feedback from students, faculty, administrators, accrediting body, and vendors.
- Provides readers with the process and tools necessary for complete instructional delivery of a business capstone learning experience.
- Is built upon a pedagogy that is consistent with creative progressive intellectual enlightenment, which brings the experience of the student participant to a level that not only benefits the students in particular and society in general.
Chapter 1 The Big Picture
a. How I got to where I am
b. Meeting of the minds, a vision perspective—capstone strategic management focus
c. Introduction of the assessment tools, grading rubric and use for capstone course
d. Brief commentary about book structure with flow of chapters
Chapter 2 Before We Can Be Good Manager of Others, We Must First Be Good Manager of Self
a. Why knowledge of self is the pivotal starting point—what is in it for me?
b. Self-awareness model
Chapter 3 Strategic Management Focus
a. Make business-oriented decisions in a realistic, complex context
b. Effectively analyze business information in order to make business-oriented decisions
c. Apply knowledge of functional areas of business to problems in a realistic context
d. Work effectively in a team setting, including joint decision-making and problem solving
Chapter 4 Global DNA—Getting the Simulation Underway
a. Student preparation
b. The mindsets of the international entrepreneur
c. A deliberate practice approach
d. Global DNA
Chapter 5 Understanding Human Capital People Performance
a. Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
b. People performance in the work environment
c. Empowering others through enhanced knowledge
Chapter 6 Team MATE—Getting It Underway
a. Communication as a transactional process
b. Value of divergent thought, conflict and failure
c. Team MATE
Chapter 7 Integrity, Trust, and Ethics
a. Ethical theories and perspectives
b. Unethical behavior and reasoning
c. Corporate social responsibility
d. Conclusion