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Practical books for people who care about their work.

Each one is built to be dog-eared and underlined — a working tool, not a textbook. Start anywhere.

Latest release2026

Decision Architecture

Building the Systems That Make Good Decisions Inevitable

Organisations don’t have decision problems. They have decision architecture problems — noise where there should be clarity, heroics where there should be systems, and outcomes that depend on who happened to be in the room. This book is the working blueprint: how to structure work and decisions so that performance stays predictable under pressure, momentum survives a bad Monday, and good calls stop being lucky. The operating manual behind The Decision Architecture Group.

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BestsellerSecond Edition, 2026

A Practical Guide to Surviving Horrible Leadership

The Prince Meets the Office

Your workplace runs on politics, reputation and unwritten rules — and pretending otherwise is why good people keep losing. This book uses Machiavelli’s five-hundred-year-old principles to navigate the modern court: spot the toxic varieties early, survive the blame games, make your work visible, and leave on your own terms — with your record, your health, and your sense of humour intact. Evidence-based, brutally practical, and funnier than it has any right to be.

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Launching in 20272027

Unpopular

The Cost of Being Effective

Some people are paid to be unpopular — to say what others won’t, fix what others broke, and force what others avoid. This book is about what that role really costs, why effectiveness gets punished in organisations that run on reputation, and how to carry unpopularity deliberately — with cover, with limits, and with your self-respect placed permanently beyond anyone’s reach.

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For operators2025

Operational Architecture

A practical management operating system for open-cut mining production

A complete, practical management operating system for open-cut mining production — taking you from mine planning all the way through to review and improve. A working blueprint for the rhythms, routines and systems that turn a plan into consistent production.

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