Diagnostics

Tools that tell you where you stand

Each one takes about five minutes. They run in your browser, they are meant to be slightly uncomfortable, and none of them will tell you what to buy.

Live

The Exit Power Score

Runway, employer concentration, fixed commitments and outside market strength, combined into one number out of ten. The first thing most people discover is that they have never calculated any of it.

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The Earning Power Audit

Where you sit on the Leadership Value Ladder, and the specific behaviours that separate you from the level above. Written for people who have been told to be more strategic and were not told what that means.

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Worksheets

Sent by email as a PDF. One email, then the weekly letter if you want it.

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Which would you like?

The Concentration Map. How much of your income, net worth, health cover, network and identity trace back to one employer. Usually a shock when drawn. Comp Deconstruction. Break your package into what is yours, what is conditional, what is deferred and what is illusory. Most senior packages are mostly not the first one. The Number Worksheet. Not one number. Five levels of enough, each buying a different kind of freedom. The AI Career Moat Audit. Sort your own work into what the tools make cheap and what stays human. Then decide where your value should move.

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You will also get The Optional Career each week. One click to leave, any time.