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Who’s Running This Place?
Four diagnostic tools for the competent professional navigating organizational gravity. Identify the patterns operating around you. Locate yourself on the arc from observation to strategic clarity. Measure the structural forces shaping your environment. These tools are free, immediate, and grounded in the book’s framework.
Recommended sequence: start with the Weather Map to identify the patterns, then the Complicity Reckoning to locate yourself, then the Gravity Score to measure the forces. Download the Field Guide as your ongoing reference.
Organizational Weather Map
22 behavioral indicators across 11 leadership archetypes. Identify which incentive-driven patterns are currently active in your organization. The recognition moment: ‘I know this person.’
The Complicity Reckoning
15 questions that place you on the arc from observation to strategic clarity. The book’s hardest insight: your competence may be part of what sustains the dysfunction. Where do you stand?
Organizational Gravity Score
Measure the six structural forces — incentive asymmetry, prestige bias, governance drift, information asymmetry, promotion deferral, and competence absorption — operating on your organization. Radar chart visualization.
Pattern Field Guide
A downloadable quick-reference PDF: one page per archetype with incentive logic and behavioral indicators, plus the six forces of organizational gravity and the Seven Reminders. Email required.
“Most writing about organizational dysfunction focuses on the people — their narcissism, their insecurity, their incompetence. This book focuses on the position.”
Who’s Running This Place? decodes 11 leadership archetypes through incentive logic — not personality, not grievance. Written from inside the system by someone who absorbed its costs.
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