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Rigged: The High-Performer's Guide to Winning in a Broken System

Rigged: The High-Performer's Guide to Winning in a Broken System

Grey, Silas

Paperback

Business GeneralSelf-Help

ISBN13: 9798244606928
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 19 2026
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.18 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The corporate world isn't a meritocracy. It's a Casino. And the House always wins.

You do the work. You fix the bugs. You save the client accounts. Yet, at the end of the year, you watch the loudest person in the room-who hasn't delivered a real project in months-get the promotion and the raise.

You are told to trust the process. You are told that if you just keep your head down and work hard, the system will reward you.

That is a lie.

The system is not designed to reward Output. It is designed to reward Compliance and Perception. If you are playing by the official rules (working hard, being honest, waiting your turn), you are the sucker at the table.

Rigged is the manifesto for the competent professional who is tired of losing. It is not a book about leadership or teamwork. It is a field manual on how to become a Corporate Card Counter.

In this book, you will learn how to:

  • Hack the Metrics (Goodhart's Law): Why doing good work often hurts your career, and how to optimize for the only thing your boss actually sees: The Dashboard.
  • Master Perception Arbitrage: How to rebrand your admin chores as strategic initiatives to double your perceived value with zero extra effort.
  • Escape the Busy Trap: Why being available is a sign of weakness, and how to use Strategic Ghosting to increase your demand.
  • Manufacture a Crisis: Heroes get promoted, but there are no heroes without fires. Learn the dark art of the Controlled Burn to save the day on your own terms.
  • Negotiate with Leverage: How to use Phantom Equity and the Flight Risk signal to get a raise even when the budget is frozen.
You don't have to burn out. You don't have to become a toxic backstabber. You just have to stop playing the game they want you to play, and start playing the game as it actually exists.

The game is rigged. It's time you learned how to cheat.

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