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The book, forthcoming

Some people's work travels. Yours stays close to you.

Counted On names the real reason, and gives you a practice to close the gap.
Who it is for

For capable people whose work is trusted, but not yet counted on where it matters. You do excellent work. It gets used. And still, the direction-setting happens without you.

The problem is not visibility. It is usability, and that is something you can build.

You cannot make yourself counted on. You can only build what makes it possible.

Counted On How solid work becomes work that travels Thomas Saxe
The category contrast

Most career advice tells you to become more visible.

Counted On teaches you to make your work more usable, and then to read whether the work is carrying your judgment, credit and access with it.

Used is not carried. Work may move through the organisation without you moving with it.

The book in four lines
What is the problem?Good work stays too close to you.
What causes it?The value is not yet usable enough. The friction may sit in the work, the room, the timing, or a mix, and too much still depends on you being there.
What is the alternative?Not more visibility. More usability.
What is the transformation?From overlooked to counted on.
The distinction, in the book's own words

Used is not carried.

Work can earn the room's spoken yes: "Good work. We use it."
Without earning the owned one: "We plan with you in mind."

An excerpt from the book

One exercise, taken directly from Counted On.

Choose one small move you can make on your next meaningful piece of work to increase the chance that it will travel well. For example:

Use that move on the next real piece of work you produce. Notice what changes.

"My last piece of work stopped or travelled because X. The friction sat mostly in Y. The move I will make on the next piece is Z."

This is one exercise from one chapter. The book follows the same shape through ten shifts, each with its own friction, its own move, and its own evidence to read.

The release

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