Hard to Fire · Book One appendix

The printable Master Scorecard bundle

One place to see the work, record the results that matter, and print the four full forms Book One moves out of the chapters.

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The five primary outputs

Put these side by side at the reset, not into a new score.

Record the source-home result for each model. During Days 85 through 90, mark Current or Gap, choose exactly two gaps, then give each selected gap one action, one owner, and one date.

Chapter 3 · Organizational Exposure

Expendability Scorecard

Required output: Expendability total and highest exposure factor. Put the supporting Cost-or-Leverage, AI Exposure, and Protection Audit evidence below it; select two vulnerabilities to repair first.

Source-home result

Current or gap Action owner Date Next action

Chapter 6 · Decision-Maker Value

Value Translation Worksheet

Required output: One translated result tied to a decision the manager owns, plus evidence the update was delivered.

Source-home result

Current or gap Action owner Date Next action

Chapter 9 · Career Portability

Reinvention Narrative Builder

Required output: One adjacent-role hypothesis supported by evidence and tested outside the current company.

Source-home result

Current or gap Action owner Date Next action

Chapter 10 · Financial Resilience

Household Income Risk Audit

Required output: Current burn, post-loss burn, runway, and the next threshold action. Attach the Side Income Filter only when triggered.

Source-home result

Current or gap Action owner Date Next action

Chapter 11 · Separation Readiness

Layoff Fire Drill Checklist

Required output: One lawful firebreak: portability inventory, first unresolved access gap assigned, and next maintenance date. Conditionally add PIP response posture and next permitted action.

Source-home result

Current or gap Action owner Date Next action

The master inventory

Find the artifact that belongs to the current problem.

The five models are the system. The nineteen artifacts support them. Record only a result you have actually completed; open the source chapter tool whenever you need the full working version.

Organizational Exposure

Diagnostic

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.

Diagnostic

The AI Exposure Map

Find the work AI can eat, the work that still needs you, and where your time should move next.

Diagnostic · Primary output

The Expendability Scorecard

Find which of seven factors are putting the most pressure on your name.

Diagnostic

The 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.

Decision-Maker Value

Worksheet

The Manager Dependency Map

Find one burden your manager would notice if it disappeared, and one low-risk way to take weight off it.

Worksheet · Primary output

The Value Translation Worksheet

Convert actual accomplishments into language that decision-makers inside and outside the company can understand and verify.

Reference

Five Starter Tasks to Hand AI

Provide five bounded, approved AI workflows that preserve verification, judgment, and information controls.

Worksheet

The Sponsor Map

Create a four-column relationship map, identify one advocacy gap, and choose one next conversation.

Career Portability

Diagnostic

The Narrative Strength Test

Test whether the adjacent-role narrative is specific, supportable, and portable.

Worksheet · Primary output

The Reinvention Narrative Builder

Build one adjacent-role hypothesis supported by Pattern, Prevention, and Amplification.

Tracker · Primary output

The Optionality Calendar

Keep four career assets warm enough that none has to be rebuilt in a panic.

Diagnostic · Primary output

The 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.

Financial Resilience

Calculator · Primary output

Household Income Risk Audit

Calculate current burn, post-loss burn, baseline runway, and the household's income concentration.

Calculator

Lifestyle Inflation Detector

Compare monthly expense growth with monthly income growth inside the Household Income Risk Audit.

Separation Readiness

Checklist · Primary output

Layoff Fire Drill Checklist

Find the gaps that would turn the first 72 hours after a layoff into a reconstruction project.

Diagnostic · Primary output

The PIP Diagnostic

Identify whether the document and surrounding conduct call for a coaching posture, a dual-track posture, or immediate defensive preparation.

Checklist

The PIP Survival Checklist

Execute the response in order when stress makes sequencing difficult.

All Five Models

Plan · Primary output

The 90-Day Hard to Fire Plan

Build the five primary outputs without turning the rest of the book into a certification program.

Plan

The Hard to Fire Master Scorecard

Compose the five governing-model outputs without creating a competing score system.

Complete relocated forms

The four full forms behind the shorter chapter views.

These forms belong here because Chapters 4, 5, 7, and 9 keep shorter working views. Their source chapters remain the place to make sense of the result.

Chapter 4 · Organizational Exposure

Protection Audit

Score all fifteen questions from 1 to 5. A 1 means a significant gap. A 5 means you are well-positioned. Average the three answers in each dimension, then add the five dimension averages.

Open the Chapter 4 working tool

Trust

1. Does your manager bring you into authorized problem discussions before the solution is decided?

2. Are you included when your judgment is relevant to an early-stage problem?

3. Does your manager trust you with appropriate context before a change is announced?

Average

Visibility

4. Do people two levels above your manager know your name?

5. Has someone outside your immediate team referenced your work in the last six months?

6. If your name came up while you were absent, would someone have a specific, positive association?

Average

Manager Usefulness

7. Would your manager’s workload increase significantly if you left?

8. Do you handle tasks, projects, or relationships your manager does not want to absorb?

9. Has your manager credited you for making their work easier?

Average

Leadership Explainability

10. Can your value be described in one sentence using revenue, risk, margin, quality, or speed?

11. Would a senior leader understand what you do without a five-minute explanation?

12. Does your most recent performance record describe outcomes rather than effort alone?

Average

AI Capability

13. Are you using an employer-approved AI tool on real work with data authorized for that environment?

14. Have you shown your manager or team one checked AI-assisted result during the last quarter?

15. Could you teach a colleague one governed workflow without exposing restricted information?

Average

Total of five averages

Under 15: high vulnerability. 15 through 20: moderate vulnerability. Above 20: well-positioned.

Chapter 5 · Decision-Maker Value

Pain-to-Power Matrix

List five unclaimed problems. Score each from 1 to 5 on visibility to leadership, political safety, revenue or risk connection, and speed to results.

Return to the Chapter 5 working tool

Visibility to Leadership: 1 means nobody above your manager is likely to notice. 5 means a senior leader has named the problem or priority.

Political Safety: 1 means the work could cross authority or create enemies. 5 means the work fits your authority and threatens nobody.

Revenue/Risk Connection: 1 means minor convenience. 5 means a clear connection to money, quality, operations, or material risk.

Speed to Results: 1 means no visible progress for more than a year. 5 means a useful first result within thirty days.

X-axis: average of Visibility to Leadership and Revenue/Risk Connection. Y-axis: average of Political Safety and Speed to Results.

Candidate problem	Visibility	Political safety	Revenue/risk	Speed	X average	Y average
Candidate problem 1	Score 1 for candidate problem 1	Score 2 for candidate problem 1	Score 3 for candidate problem 1	Score 4 for candidate problem 1	Score 5 for candidate problem 1	Score 6 for candidate problem 1
Candidate problem 2	Score 1 for candidate problem 2	Score 2 for candidate problem 2	Score 3 for candidate problem 2	Score 4 for candidate problem 2	Score 5 for candidate problem 2	Score 6 for candidate problem 2
Candidate problem 3	Score 1 for candidate problem 3	Score 2 for candidate problem 3	Score 3 for candidate problem 3	Score 4 for candidate problem 3	Score 5 for candidate problem 3	Score 6 for candidate problem 3
Candidate problem 4	Score 1 for candidate problem 4	Score 2 for candidate problem 4	Score 3 for candidate problem 4	Score 4 for candidate problem 4	Score 5 for candidate problem 4	Score 6 for candidate problem 4
Candidate problem 5	Score 1 for candidate problem 5	Score 2 for candidate problem 5	Score 3 for candidate problem 5	Score 4 for candidate problem 5	Score 5 for candidate problem 5	Score 6 for candidate problem 5

Top-right: high reward and high safety. Pursue.
Bottom-right: high reward and high risk. Proceed only with explicit manager support and an early visible result.
Top-left: lower reward and high safety. Use for skill building, not major career capital.
Bottom-left: low reward and high risk. Avoid.

Chapter 7 · Decision-Maker Value

First 20 Tasks to Hand AI

Use only an employer-approved tool and only information authorized for that environment. Do not paste restricted company, client, employee, regulated, privileged, or proprietary material into an unapproved system. Check every factual claim, number, citation, assumption, and outbound message yourself.

Open the Chapter 7 starter tool

Assistant

Decode a vague executive request into the request, deadline, constraints, and unresolved questions.
Reduce an authorized report, policy update, or transcript to one page with three important takeaways.
Turn authorized meeting notes into a structured summary with actions and owners.
Convert an authorized project plan into a checklist with deadlines and missing dependencies.

Analyst

Inspect a questionable figure and produce possible drivers plus a validation plan. Treat every driver as a hypothesis until checked.
Identify patterns in an approved dataset and write the test required to validate each pattern.
Build a one-page competitor update from cited public sources. Open and verify every source before relying on it.
Compare three authorized or public industry articles. Separate shared trends, disagreements, and unsupported assertions.

Editor

Rewrite a difficult email for professionalism while keeping the actual boundary intact.
Simplify a complex explanation for a nonexpert without changing the underlying facts.
Cut a slide-deck narrative to half its length without losing the argument or evidence.
Rewrite a self-assessment in executive outcome language without inventing scope, credit, or results.

Tutor

Explain an unfamiliar concept at executive and practitioner levels, then identify authoritative sources for verification.
Teach the basics of a company tool from approved documentation and flag steps that require internal confirmation.
Create a five-question quiz for an upcoming presentation or review, then compare your answers with verified material.
Turn authorized meeting notes into a study guide of key decisions, reasons, owners, and implications.

Sounding Board

Rehearse a difficult manager conversation using a generalized or permitted scenario. Test several phrasings without surrendering the point.
Generate several hypotheses about a confusing political situation. Treat them as possibilities, not facts or permission to seek restricted information.
Argue both sides of a possible career move and list the unknowns that would change the decision.
Review an unsent email from a senior executive’s perspective and identify accidental signals, ambiguity, and likely questions.

Complete one task first. Record what the tool accelerated, what it got wrong, and where your judgment changed the result.

Chapter 9 · Career Portability

Narrative Strength Test

Score each question 0, 1, or 2. Add the ten answers for a maximum of 20.

Open the Chapter 9 working tool

Does the narrative mention a specific dollar amount or measurable business impact at least twice? Zero means none, one means one mention, and two means two or more figures.
Could a hiring manager identify the exact type of problem you solve? Zero means too vague, one means the general category is clear, and two means the problem is unmistakable.
Does the narrative include a prevention story with a figure attached? Zero means none, one means no figure, and two means estimated cost, delay, or exposure avoided.
Does the narrative name a specific AI tool or workflow? Zero means none, one means general mention, and two means a specific tool and workflow.
If you remove experience, years, and seasoned, does the narrative still work? Zero means it falls apart, one means it mostly holds, and two means it improves.
Does the narrative name a business cycle, market condition, or organizational event you navigated? Zero means none, one means one, and two means two or more.
Could a junior employee write the same narrative? Zero means yes, one means perhaps, and two means not without the judgment described.
Does it answer why someone should pay senior rates without using experience? Zero means no, one means partly, and two means clearly with evidence.
Is there a sentence a CFO would underline? Zero means none, one means an interesting line, and two means clear cost, risk, margin, or decision language.
Does the narrative show how AI makes you faster while judgment improves the output? Zero means neither, one means speed only, and two means speed plus quality.

Total out of 20

Under 10: rewrite. 10 through 14: sharpen. 15 through 17: strong. 18 or higher: ready for pressure.

Read the combined pattern

Use combinations to route action, not to predict a decision.

A single result identifies a gap. A combination can show how gaps reinforce one another.

Hidden Asset

Your Expendability total is under 14, but your Protection Audit is under 15. The work appears defensible while the advocacy and visibility around it remain weak. Use the Manager Dependency Map, Value Translation Worksheet, and Sponsor Map to make existing value easier to carry into a decision room.

Immediate Exposure

Your Expendability total is 22 or higher, and the Manager Dependency Map misses one or more target ratings. The role looks exposed, and your manager lacks a clean defense. Reduce the highest Expendability factor while improving one manager pain point without creating political risk.

Comfortable Fragility

Internal results look strong, but employment still supplies the household’s critical cash flow and portable options remain untested. Run the Household Income Risk Audit and Optionality Calendar. Use the Side Income Filter only for a path that clears the required agreement, policy, disclosure, and conflict review.

Quarterly use: Chapter 15 owns the cadence. During Days 85 through 90, put the five primary outputs beside the prior cycle and choose two gaps. Don’t rerun nineteen artifacts because the calendar developed feelings. Rerun only the tools affected by a manager change, reorganization, strategy shift, household change, new AI workflow, or another condition that actually changed.