The three games: collaboration, negotiation, and war
Why almost everyone misreads which one they're in — and why the misdiagnosis is the thing doing the damage.
Coming soonThe Situation Room
Bring the situation you’re actually in.
The Situation Room is a private space to describe a real situation — the one you’re working on right now — and have it read through the strategy in Built for War. You get a clear strategic read and the questions to carry back into the room. It does not hand you platitudes. It tells you which game you’re in.
How it works
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Describe the situation you're actually in
Lay out the arena, what you're trying to change, who benefits if you fail, and what's standing in the way — and load in emails, notes, or documents that fill in the picture. The more honest the picture, the sharper the read.
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It's read through the book
Your situation is analyzed using only the principles in Built for War — the three games, what the other side stands to lose, information as a strategic resource, coalitions and exits. Not generic advice.
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Get a read, and questions to carry
You receive a strategic diagnosis of where you actually stand and the specific questions to sit with before your next move — the difference between a war, a negotiation, and ordinary slowness.
Why register
Grounded only in the book
Every response is built from the framework in Built for War — not a generic chatbot's opinion.
Private to you
Your situations are yours alone. No one else can read them.
Built for practitioners inside systems
For the people expected to endure power, not only the ones expected to command it.
Free to start
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From the field
New essays & episodes coming soonWhat people stand to lose if you succeed
The single variable that tells you whether the system is merely slow or actually at war with your work.
Coming soonInformation is a resource, not a debt you owe everyone
Strategic restraint vs. manipulation — where the line actually is, and how to stay on the right side of it.
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