Two games run at once. Only one is written down.

The visible one: targets, reviews, org charts. The other one decides who gets heard, sponsored, and given the decision rights.

It was never secret. It was just unwritten.

Three words. Thirty seconds.

READ

What am I seeing?

NAME

What is actually happening?

MOVE

What will I do about it?

Evidence, then diagnosis, then choice. Every tool in the system sits inside one of these three words.

Four lenses. Seventy-two named patterns.

11

Read the System

How decisions travel

26

Read the People

What is run at you

25

Read the Room

The twenty minutes you are in

10

Read Myself

The one lens you can correct

READ

NAME

MOVE

Five needs. Met, they build. Threatened, they game.

Status

Do I matter here?

Safety

Am I inside?

Belonging

Am I secure?

Control

Do I have

a say?

Competence

Am I able

to do this?

Status

An amplifier, not a driver. It makes whichever need is already exposed louder.

The driver never changes. The fear does.

Everything else is how the system gets used on a Tuesday.

The assessment

Ten questions. Routes across all four lenses.

Field notes · 90 days

One prompt a day. What you saw, how sure you were, what would prove you wrong.

Read People Before They Read You

The whole method. 14 chapters · 5 drivers · 9 skills.

Read Your Boss

An amplifier, not a driver. It makes whichever need is already exposed louder.

Read the Games

9 games · 6 tools. Nine of the eleven System games.

Read the Politics

6 games · 6 tools. Six of the eleven System games.

The Vault

Live application, briefings, and the full pattern library.

I have sat on both sides of the table.

Thirty years across twenty-four countries. Twenty-six of them deciding which suppliers got the contract. I reached the C-suite — and the games were played on me too.

I have sat on both sides of the table.

10 years

Above-average team survey scores, sustained. Twenty women sponsored into greater responsibility.

600 products · 24 markets

An export operation working with 800 smallholder farmers.

Supply Chain Executive of the Year

Harvard Business School, AMP. 65+ stages over 15 years.

Start with the assessment.

9 games · 6 tools. Nine of the eleven System games.

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