Decided Without You: The Ten-Minute Weekly Practice to Be Known Accurately in Rooms You Will Never Enter, Without Playing Politics (The Control Line Series)

Somewhere in the next few months, four people will spend eleven minutes deciding something about your career. You will not be there.

They will not have your CV. They will not read anything. One person will say a sentence about you, and the room will react to the sentence.

You have tried the obvious things. Working harder, so the results speak for themselves. Waiting to be noticed. Watching someone less capable get the role.

And you were told to be more visible, which was never explained, so you either refused or tried it, felt like a fraud, and stopped.

Your work is not the problem. Your work does not travel.

Inside you will discover:

• The Standing Case: what represents you when you are not in the room, and the four tests every part of it has to pass
• The two-clause sentence that survives being repeated by someone who was not there
• The five things that kill a sentence, including the three words most professionals use in every review
• The ten-minute Friday, and why it beats a year of working harder
• How to make yourself cheap to advocate for, instead of hunting for a sponsor
• What to do when your manager is the obstacle, and how to tell which of the three kinds you have
• How to replace a wrong picture without ever mentioning it
• Why this matters most to people who do not want the promotion
• A twelve-week sequence you can start on Monday

No networking. No personal brand. No posting. No performing enthusiasm you do not feel. You never have to say you are good at anything.

Book Two of The Control Line Series. Reads perfectly well on its own.

Buy your copy and find out what the room already thinks.