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Shadows of Purpose
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 27 2026
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.19 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
There is a second thing that successful people know.
Alan Royce is thirty-four, freelance, extremely good at his job and completely invisible - because when a systems consultant does his work properly, nothing happens, and a career built on things not happening is one nobody can see.
Then a man he shared a house with at university buys him a coffee and says the thing nobody says out loud: that being good is table stakes, that there is a second skill, and that it can be learned.
Six sessions. Eleven thousand dollars. Six principles on a card, and a simulation that can put him inside a situation his career would take eleven years to produce.
He learns all six. Every one of them works. Every one costs him something he did not price - a junior analyst's name, a sister who stops telling him her ideas, a man he liked.
And in the sixth session he finds out the programme was never teaching him anything.
It was measuring whether he would use it on the man who recruited him.
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