Why The Playground in Elementary School Mindset Doesn’t Work At The Office: Stop It!

Marcy Pedersen, MBA
6 min readJan 8, 2022
Photo by Thierry Lemaitre on Unsplash

A coworker came in baffled because she couldn’t understand why the department head didn’t connect with her and play nice. Their interaction together consisted of the depth of one email. I can’t over state her naivety, or ignorance, to think that she could show up with a cute smile and it would all work out. That she didn’t have to do any work…

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Marcy Pedersen, MBA

Writer, process improvement guru, analyst, life-long learner, and obsessed about improving life and work processes. Connect at marcypedersen@icloud.com