Status Games
Every workplace runs an unspoken economy of rank, and pretending otherwise does not remove you from it.
This section looks at power and the brain, the psychology of power, and what research says about navigating hierarchy without being consumed by it. As across the library, the evidence comes first and the folklore is scored against it.
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Power and the Brain: How Authority Changes Your Neurology
fMRI research reveals that authority rewires the brain's empathy, reward, and stress circuits. A 47-source investigation into the neuroscience of hierarchy.
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Measure yourself
Status Dynamics Assessment: How Are You Playing the Organisational Game?Get a baseline before you change anything. 20 questions; scored on real dimensions.
Read the evidence
Power and the Brain: How Authority Changes Your NeurologyThe full argument, chapter by chapter.
Apply it
90-Day Status Games Protocol: Navigate Organisational Power With ClarityA written method to run: 12 weeks.
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Power and the Brain: How Authority Changes Your NeurologyfMRI research reveals that authority rewires the brain's empathy, reward, and stress circuits. A 47-source investigation into the neuroscience of hierarchy.Deep dive · 18 Jun 2026- The Psychology of Power: What Happens to the Brain When You Gain AuthorityThe neuroscience of how power changes the brain: mirroring suppression, moral hypocrisy, and the neural loop that turns leaders into liabilities.Deep dive · 18 Jun 2026
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Protocols
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Assessments
Scored self-assessments with real question banks.
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