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Why promotion goes to the person with one lane and one number, why the work between departments is not counted, where breadth is paid a premium, and five moves toward the rung that pays for it.
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Introduction: Congratulations to Mark.
Conclusion: Sideways. Then the Sources chapter, where every source named in the book is listed with a link, and a short note on the author.
Pass the Output Test once, on purpose: for twelve months, one lane and one number, made to go up where the person one rung above can read it. A toll paid once, with a worksheet for choosing the lane.
For the One-Lane Year, one question before you volunteer: what does this lead to? Scripts for declining, and for negotiating the credit before you start when a good problem is too good to let go.
One cross-functional problem a year, owned end to end, with a metric, witnesses and your name on it. The template ends with the sentence for your review.
One line for a senior person to carry into the rooms where promotions are decided: what you see, the number that proves it, and the role it implies.
A seven-point diagnostic for whether your organization will ever price breadth. Two ticks or fewer, and the move is to look, calmly, for a building in turbulence, and to take the cross-cut, the number and the sentence with you.
6 sources, every one a working link. Where a finding has limits or has been revised, the book says so. Not all of them are journal papers, and the chapter says which is which.
The email came on a Thursday. Congratulations to Mark on his promotion to head of the team. You read it twice, and then you did the thing you always do, which is to be fair about it. Mark is good. Mark has done the same job for nine years and deserves something. And underneath the fairness, the other thought: Mark could not have done what I did last year. Mark does not understand how the other three teams work. Mark is now my boss.
If you have the connecting kind of mind, the kind with too many interests that sees across departments, you have probably received that email more than once, and the fairness has never quite covered the question. Why does the organization keep promoting the person who does one thing over the person who understands everything?
That is the opening of 29 pages.
Partly. The video named the Output Test, the Glue Discount, the Box Ladder and the Late Premium, gave the main research, and sketched the five moves. The book turns the moves into things you can use: a worksheet for choosing the lane, scripts for declining and for negotiating credit, the Cross-Cut template, the Sponsor Sentence with worked examples, the seven-point diagnostic, and a chapter on the review conversation, including what to ask if the email about Mark has already arrived. It adds what to do after the promotion, a note on the dual ladder and three composite careers, and says plainly that the premium was measured among chief executives.
29 pages at 6 by 9 inches, about 4,500 words, 13 chapters plus an introduction and a conclusion. It is a short book and it is priced like one. It is not a 300 page business book and it does not pretend to be.
One PDF. The download link appears on the confirmation page the moment the payment clears, and the same link is emailed to you with your invoice. No account, no app, nothing to install. The link does not expire, and if you lose the email you can have it sent again.
Yes. The pages are laid out at 6 by 9 inches. The parts you fill in sit inside the chapters they belong to, so you can print just those pages, or the whole book.
Every source is named and linked in the Sources chapter, 6 of them in this one, and the links were checked when the book was built. Not all of them are journal papers: some are reference pages, talks, or news write ups of a study, and the chapter says which is which. Where a finding has limits or has been revised, the book says so rather than quoting the headline.
Reply to the email your invoice came in and it gets fixed, with a fresh link or by refunding a duplicate charge. To be straight with you, that is not a change of mind refund policy. Because the file is delivered the instant you pay, and you confirm that at checkout, the 14 day right of withdrawal does not apply. This is us fixing our own mistakes, which is a different thing.
29 pages, five moves, 6 linked sources. One file, yours to keep.
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