Making Sense of Life Stages, the Workplace and Tmi - Hardcover

Shoemaker, Cynthia C J

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1483652009 ISBN 13: 9781483652009

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation, 2013

Synopsis

This book offers a model for making sense of the information age and too much information in the workplace and in life stages. The sense making flow charts for handling too much information and selecting alternatives are a sorting-out approach that has been used in corporations and can also be applied to government agencies and military services seeking to better use information technology to find innovative approaches for problems and for new definitions of problems. Popular author thomas friedman states that something big has happened in the worlds wiring in the last ten years, but it was obscured by the financial crisis and 9/11. We went from a connected world to a hyper connected world. He stated that facebook, twitter, 4g-5g, smart phones, ipads, ubiquitous wireless and the cloud, big data, cellphone apps and skype did not exist or were in their infancy a decade ago (in forbes, may 2013). Making sense of this and more is ones 21st century task.

About this title

About the Author

Over a number of years Cynthia C. Jones Shoemaker has been reviewing text books and current management books in the fields of human and organizational learning with great interest. Currently the Information Age with its accompanying “too much information” (TMI) has been affecting more than just business enterprises and government, but also transition stages in human development. After raising four children and working in higher education both as a professor and as an administrator for many years, it seemed useful to combine these background fields into some practical applications for others in transition and in the workplace. Graduate teaching, along with her doctorate in human development with a minor in management, informed her needs for vision, guidance, sensemaking and purpose. The model Sensemaking Flow Chart here with its clarity, has been helpful to many people in a number of walks of life, ages and stages.

Edition details

• Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1483652009
• ISBN 13: 9781483652009
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 78