The Workbook

Abstract

Every chapter from 2 to 12 ends with a tool. This appendix gathers all eleven in one place, as Chapter 1 promised, and sets them against two plans for a single quarter: one for a leader, built on the thirteen weeks of Chapter 8, and one for a household, built on Chapter 11. The tools are reproduced as they appear in their chapters, so that these pages can be printed and worked from without turning back. Where a tool names a chapter, the chapter holds the reasoning and the evidence. The page here holds the practice. Four rules from the book govern every page that follows, and they are the four commitments of Chapter 12. Map before you price. Correct before you give. Give with attention, and let it be refused. Receive. One more, from Chapter 9's rules for measuring a gift economy, governs every number the tools produce: count the group, never the person, and let no figure from these pages feed a bonus, a rating or a pay decision for anyone. A tool used against any of these rules is being misused, however carefully the page is filled in.