Career: which
seat should you take
In the wrong seat, a strength reads as a defect.
Some people climb inside a system; others die inside one. This is not about ability. It is about the ratio of officer to resource in your chart, and whether your output has an exit.
Officer feeding resource: the system player
Officer is responsibility; resource is endorsement. When officer feeds resource, a place with clear levels makes you steadier every year, because you need a title before you go all in. What wears this type out is not volume. It is being illegitimate — doing the head of department's work under the word “assistant” will quietly drain you dry.
Output feeding wealth: the craft player
Output is what you make; wealth is what it turns into. This type gets paid for the thing itself, and is constitutionally unsuited to being managed. Put them in a process and they will invent a way around it, then be told they don't follow procedure. What they need is not stability — it is an exit that settles directly.
Rivals dividing the pie: write the rules first
A chart heavy with rivals always has someone sharing the same pie. It is not that they are being schemed against — it is that they are embarrassed to speak first. So this type can partner, but must put the split, the exit and the decision rights in writing before anything starts. Writing it down is not distrust. It is what lets the relationship survive.
Move now, or wait
two solar terms
Unlock: your seat type · the timing to act · the missing capability
- Whether you are a system, craft or resource type
- Whether to move now: one concrete timing judgement
- What you lack — capability, network, or legitimacy
- The one thing that must be finished before thirty