Book 3: Competitive Dynamics
43 frameworks derived from this book's biological principles
30-Day Post-Crisis Sprint
A day-by-day tactical execution roadmap integrating all five reconciliation mechanisms into a comprehensive 30-day framework, with extension to 90 day...
Authentic Reconciliation Framework
A five-signal framework for demonstrating authentic (vs. performative) reconciliation based on primate ability to detect insincere reconciliation atte...
Automated Cheater Detection
Framework for building automated fraud detection systems that can scale beyond human memory capacity, derived from Alibaba's $160M annual anti-counter...
Boundary Maintenance Audit
A diagnostic tool to identify which specific boundaries are healthy versus at-risk, enabling surgical territory decisions. Most companies under-invest...
Cheater Detection Arms Race
Framework for managing the ongoing evolutionary arms race between detection systems and cheater tactics, recognizing that perfect detection is impossi...
Coalition Stability Monitor
A monitoring framework with leading indicators to track coalition health and intervene before collapse. Includes monthly metrics, quarterly stability...
Coalition vs Acquisition Decision
A decision framework to determine whether to pursue a true coalition partnership or an acquisition when considering a strategic combination. The matri...
Consolation Trust Framework
A four-element framework for rebuilding trust with broader stakeholder groups through consolation behaviors, distinct from direct victim reconciliatio...
Costly Punishment Framework
Four-condition framework for determining whether market punishment will effectively deter cheating behavior, derived from the Chipotle food safety cas...
Costly Signal Audit
A quarterly framework for identifying which investments function as costly signals versus genuine capability building, and calculating whether they're...
Costly Signal Stage Framework
A framework defining what constitutes a 'costly signal' demonstrating authentic reconciliation commitment at different company stages, from seed to pu...
Designing Active Teaching Systems
A five-step framework for creating effective teaching (not just passive learning) based on NYT and Hermès models of mentorship.
Detecting Intrasexual Competition
A diagnostic framework to identify whether your market involves arms race dynamics (intrasexual competition) versus customer appreciation (intersexual...
Diagnosing Runaway Selection
A diagnostic framework to determine whether business success comes from runaway selection (arbitrary culturally-transmitted preferences) versus honest...
Expansion Defendability Test
A six-question diagnostic to predict whether expansion into new territory is economically defensible given current defensive capacity. Prevents expans...
Good Genes Signal Design
A framework for creating honest signals where visible costly investments correlate with actual underlying quality that customers value.
Grooming Investment Calculator
A quantitative framework to calculate the minimum relationship investment (grooming period) required before value extraction in a coalition. Based on...
Hierarchy Clarity Diagnostic
A 10-question diagnostic tool to assess whether an organization's hierarchy is clear or ambiguous before crisis reveals it. Most organizations don't k...
Intersexual Choice Strategy Design
A framework for succeeding through customer courtship by understanding what choosing customers actually value and designing investments to address tho...
Knowledge Accumulation Systems
A five-step framework for creating Corning-style institutional memory that preserves knowledge across decades. Addresses tenure extension, failure doc...
Knowledge Transfer Prevention
A five-step framework for avoiding the 70% family business mortality rate, based on lessons from failed successions like Trattoria Bella Vista.
Matrix Escape Plan
A 5-step process for converting non-transitive (circular) hierarchy to linear hierarchy. Designed for organizations trapped in Unilever-style matrix s...
Merger Integration Playbook
A 5-step process for combining organizations without hierarchy chaos, based on biological principles of flock mergers. Addresses the N1×N2 contest req...
Post-Conflict Affiliation
A four-element framework for successful corporate reconciliation based on primate post-conflict affiliation behaviors. Defines the essential component...
Prosocial Leadership Transition
A 24-month phased transformation for organizations stuck in despotic patterns. Careful sequencing avoids chaos while shifting from fear-based to coali...
Reputation Cooperation Conditions
Framework identifying the four conditions that must hold for reputation systems to create stable tit-for-tat cooperation, derived from both vampire ba...
Reputation System Playbook
Practical 8-week implementation guide for building a functioning reputation system from scratch, designed for early-stage marketplaces with limited re...
Satellite vs Territorial Decision
A decision matrix for consciously choosing between territorial defense and satellite strategy. Sometimes the best territorial strategy is no territory...
Scale-Appropriate Detection
Framework mapping appropriate cheater detection investment to company growth stage, from seed through Series B+.
Signal Credibility Scorecard
A 10-point scoring system to assess whether a proposed quality signal will be believed by target customers before investing significant resources.
Status Signal Design Framework
A framework for designing organizational status signals that maintain hierarchy without constant conflict. Based on biological principles where good s...
Territory Economics Calculator
A diagnostic framework for calculating whether territorial defense costs are sustainable relative to territory value. Produces a Defensive Intensity R...
The Coalition Architecture Design
Intentional design of coalition structures preventing both despotism and chaos. Based on the Minimum Winning Coalition principle from political scienc...
The Dominance Diagnostic
Monthly 15-minute health check monitoring despotism, prosocial, and chaos indicators. Acts as 'check engine light' for leadership culture - catches dr...
The Leadership Currency Audit
A 90-minute diagnostic sprint to map actual vs. formal power sources in your organization. Identifies whether your leadership model is despotic (>70%...
The Succession Architecture
A 5-7 year knowledge transfer process modeled on elephant matriarchs. Creates gradual transitions preventing power vacuums. Critical threshold: succes...
Third-Party Cheater Detection
Framework for addressing the unique dynamics when watchdogs (auditors, inspectors, regulators) themselves become cheaters, derived from the Arthur And...
Three-Party Coalition Design
A design framework for creating stable three-party coalitions by ensuring no two-party sub-coalition is viable. Based on biological observations that...
Timing Reconciliation Framework
A four-principle framework for optimizing reconciliation timing based on the biological finding that delayed reconciliation allows relationship damage...
Transmitting Cultural Knowledge
A five-step framework for preserving and transmitting organizational culture across generations, based on IKEA's Testament model.
Twenty-Four Hour Response
A three-phase implementation playbook for building crisis response infrastructure before crisis hits. The difference between J&J's 24-hour response an...
Unreconciled Conflict Costs
A four-step framework for calculating whether reconciliation is worth the cost by quantifying direct, opportunity, and long-term costs of unresolved c...
Utilizing Grandmothers
A framework for capturing knowledge value from post-peak-productivity employees, based on the biological grandmother hypothesis and Hermès master craf...