Chapter 3
The Expendability Scorecard
Find which of seven factors are putting the most pressure on your name.
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Five questions worth answering.
These five tools help you build useful answers: a clearer read on your role, language for your value, a credible next direction, a realistic household runway, and a plan for a hard conversation. You do not need to complete them all or finish supporting tools first. The rest of the library adds detail when your chapter or result calls for it.
Chapter 6
The Value Translation Worksheet
Convert actual accomplishments into language that decision-makers inside and outside the company can understand and verify.
Open toolChapter 9
The Reinvention Narrative Builder
Build one adjacent-role hypothesis supported by Pattern, Prevention, and Amplification.
Open toolChapter 10
Household Income Risk Audit
Calculate current burn, post-loss burn, baseline runway, and the household's income concentration.
Open toolChapter 11
Layoff Fire Drill Checklist
Find the gaps that would turn the first 72 hours after a layoff into a reconstruction project.
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The rest of the library, when you need it.
These tools add detail, test an assumption, or help with a situation that becomes real. They are not a required sequence. Every tool saves entries only in this browser until you clear them; print or export your completed work when you need a record.
The Cost-or-Leverage Self-Test
Reveals whether the people above you see you as someone who generates value or someone who consumes budget, so you can reposition before a restructuring makes the decision for you.
Open toolThe AI Exposure Map
Find the work AI can eat, the work that still needs you, and where your time should move next.
Open toolThe Expendability Scorecard
Find which of seven factors are putting the most pressure on your name.
Open toolThe Protection Audit
Find the weak layer left exposed after Chapter 3 shows you where the pressure is coming from. This is a second look at the same risk, not a second system.
Open toolThe Manager Dependency Map
Find one burden your manager would notice if it disappeared, and one low-risk way to take weight off it.
Open toolThe Value Translation Worksheet
Convert actual accomplishments into language that decision-makers inside and outside the company can understand and verify.
Open toolFive Starter Tasks to Hand AI
Provide five bounded, approved AI workflows that preserve verification, judgment, and information controls.
Open toolThe Sponsor Map
Create a four-column relationship map, identify one advocacy gap, and choose one next conversation.
Open toolThe Narrative Strength Test
Test whether the adjacent-role narrative is specific, supportable, and portable.
Open toolThe Reinvention Narrative Builder
Build one adjacent-role hypothesis supported by Pattern, Prevention, and Amplification.
Open toolHousehold Income Risk Audit
Calculate current burn, post-loss burn, baseline runway, and the household's income concentration.
Open toolLifestyle Inflation Detector
Compare monthly expense growth with monthly income growth inside the Household Income Risk Audit.
Open toolLayoff Fire Drill Checklist
Find the gaps that would turn the first 72 hours after a layoff into a reconstruction project.
Open toolThe Optionality Calendar
Keep four career assets warm enough that none has to be rebuilt in a panic.
Open toolThe Side Income Filter
Decide whether a real side-income idea deserves a Go, a small Test, or a Not Yet before you invest months in it.
Open toolThe PIP Diagnostic
Identify whether the document and surrounding conduct call for a coaching posture, a dual-track posture, or immediate defensive preparation.
Open toolThe PIP Survival Checklist
Execute the response in order when stress makes sequencing difficult.
Open toolThe 90-Day Hard to Fire Plan
Build the five primary outputs without turning the rest of the book into a certification program.
Open toolThe Hard to Fire Master Scorecard
Compose the five governing-model outputs without creating a competing score system.
Open toolBook One reference library
Keep the supporting material close.
These pages keep the expanded prompt library, printable master inventory, and dated source updates available without an account or a gate.
Complete AI Starter Prompt Library
Use one bounded prompt for the business function in front of you, then check the result before it goes anywhere.
Open prompt libraryMaster Scorecard Bundle
See the five outputs together, use the relocated forms, and print the working material when you need a record.
Open printable bundleCurrent Updates and Sources
Check what has been reviewed since the manuscript baseline, and see the source and date behind any published change.
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