The Book
Decision Gospel
Decision Gospel is a book about analytics and decision-making, written as satirical scripture. It is for analysts, operations researchers, data scientists, and the managers above them: anyone who has watched an organization start with the data before anyone named the decision.
Formats
Print, Kindle, and the audiobook to come
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The Canon
What the book contains
The Book of Origins
Genesis
In the beginning was the objective. The story of how we lost it, and why we came back.
The First Texts
The Three Homilies
Sermons delivered from the mount. Diagnosis, confession, and parable. The founding proclamations of the faith.
The Seven
The Sins
The ways we fail. Named, anatomized, and offered without apology to those who need to hear them.
The Qualities
The Virtues
The qualities of the practitioner who has internalized the discipline. Spoken from the same mount.
The Ten
The Commandments
The moral architecture of the discipline. The statements are free; the commentary stays in the book.
The Blessings
The Beatitudes
Blessed are those who name the decision before the laptop opens, and other truths the room did not want to hear.
The Warned Against
The False Prophets
They are in your organization. Some of them are beloved. A record of the archetypes and their specific harms.
The Book of the Congregation
The Congregation
Traditions, practitioners, and the ones who built the bridge anyway. A record of who we are.
The Named Path
The Gospel of John
Sealed common sense, the door, the novel, and the gospel that carries the frame into the room.
The Named
The Heresies
False gospels, their adherents, and the specific ways they lead the faithful astray.
Stories from the Pulpit
The Parables
Each one is true. Each one is happening right now in a building you have been inside.
Three Poems
Lamentations
Three poems for what the discipline costs. Read them slowly before the next chapter.
The Book of Revelation
The Four Horsemen
They are in your building. Scale, sunk cost, consensus, and the orphan system: each one welcomed, each one already riding.
The Constructive Text
The Liturgy
The stack and the six steps. What you must be before what you must know.
How the Work Proceeds
The Order of Service
The frame and its doubt. Confirmation without swagger. The iron triangle, working.
The Constructive Text
The Book of the Practitioner
What you must be before what you must know. Read the rest first; come here when you are ready to build.
The Book of Wisdom
The Proverbs
One line. One truth. No deck required. Stones for the rooms that will not sit still for a sermon.
The Book of Songs
The Psalms
Five songs of the faithful, written from the pew.
The Epistles
Letters to the Influential
Written to specific people in specific buildings. The names have been omitted.
What Is Already Visible
The Book of Warnings
A record of what is already visible, written as observation.
The Closing
The Closing of the Canon
The last word of the manuscript. The work continues in the rooms.