Book 5: Communication and Signaling
14 frameworks derived from this book's biological principles
Crew Resource Management
An acoustic communication protocol developed after the United Airlines Flight 173 disaster (1978) to prevent communication failures in high-stakes env...
Crisis Chemical Signaling Playbook
A structured approach to crisis communication based on the principle that how you respond matters more than what happened. Derived from J&J's Tylenol...
Message Half-Life Framework
A framework for understanding how different organizational messages decay over time and designing appropriate reinforcement cadences. Different messag...
Shared Infrastructure
A framework for designing, contributing to, and leveraging network infrastructure that enables collective coordination while maintaining individual au...
The Critical Mass Framework
A framework for engineering social crystallization in organizations: detecting when critical mass is reached, triggering collective action at the righ...
The Enforcement Rule
The principle that cooperation persists only when networks actively enforce reciprocity through sanctioning (punishing cheaters) and partner choice (r...
The Four Frequencies Framework
A framework for structuring organizational acoustic communication based on biological principles. Organizations need four distinct acoustic communicat...
The Murmuration Method
A framework for designing distributed coordination systems where global coordination emerges from local interactions, without sacrificing safety, qual...
The Peacock's Test
A four-tier framework for signal verification that helps leaders design honest signals that resist skepticism and verify incoming signals to avoid exp...
The Pheromone Test
A 2x2 framework mapping signals by Cost (how expensive/risky) and Authenticity (how hard to fake). Like pheromones in nature that can't be faked becau...
The Prairie Dog Protocol
A comprehensive framework for building organizational crisis alarm systems based on biological alarm call principles. Like prairie dogs encoding preda...
The Signal Alignment Protocol
A structured approach for correcting misalignment when The Signal Portfolio Audit reveals gaps between stated values and actual signals. Like organism...
The Signal Portfolio Audit
A systematic framework for auditing organizational signals across four dimensions (compensation, time, budget, hiring) to identify misalignment betwee...
Visual Honesty Framework
A framework for auditing organizational visual communication and ensuring signals are honest, costly, and strategically intentional. Based on biologic...