Navigating the Playground offers a visualization that analyzes this process of understanding the wheel, that continuously turns, as one goes down the path of managing life’s challenges. Undoubtedly, people want to find more effective ways to tackle organizational management in a fashion that does not short-change their personal goals.
This book, designed as a self-help aid to parenting, personal and business management, walks the reader through 12 concrete issues that may be used to analyze dilemmas and challenges that require both emotional and mental evaluation. Navigating the Playground allows readers to initiate control behind the wheel of their choices and decisions, while guiding them to move forward towards gaining confidence and added self-esteem.
12-Step Litmus Test
Introduction
1 Issue: Assumptions versus Knowing
2 Issue: Microeconomics versus Macroeconomics
3 Issue: Rhetoric versus Reform
4 Issue: Honesty versus Accountability
5 Issue: The Act versus the Tact
6 Issue: Plan versus Outcome
7 Issue: Who’s the Leader?
8 Issue: Encode versus Decode
9 Issue: Anxiety versus Enjoyment
10 Issue: Obsession versus Letting Go
11 Issue: Spent Time versus Lost Time
12 Issue: Wealth versus Happiness
Business Organization
Chapter 1 The Future and How to Get There: Strategy
Chapter 2 Introduction to Organizational Behavior
Chapter 3 Doing the Job and Then Some: Performance
Chapter 4 Organizing the Organization: Structure
Chapter 5 Authority, Power, and Politics
Chapter 6 Disseminating Information: Communication
Chapter 7 Organizational Culture, Diversity, and Socialization
Chapter 8 Being Part of a Group: Teams
Chapter 9 Motivation in the Workplace
Chapter 10 Negotiation and Conflict
Chapter 11 Running the Organization: Management
Chapter 12 Career Development and Career Management
Glossary