Understand how reporting structures help or hinder conducting business; Provide an opportunity to consider a series of personal and career-forming and -defining decisions; Create a learning situation for readers to reflect upon their own existing, past, or future significant decisions; Challenge students to think about the critical assumptions that support and surround such decisions; Explore the soft organizational issues of politics, jealousy, time management, energy management, and gaining credibility in the context of a new organization; Appreciate how employees are attracted to and retained by an organization.