Not Intuitively Obvious: Transition To The Professional Work Environment is a concise senior manager’s memoir of lessons learned from over twenty-seven years of experience in the professional work environment. The book identifies the mindsets professionals must embrace in order to jump-start their career and is written from a boss’s viewpoint and an organizational perspective. The concept of perception management is also introduced as a tool to create and sustain a great reputation in the eyes of the organization. During economically strained times, only those informed professionals who master the noted approaches are offered the best opportunity to secure and preserve their jobs within organizations.