A trilogy on work, organisations, and the infrastructure of independent life.
Biography as method. Geography as evidence. Sovereign work as claim.
Alter's trilogy is built from a life lived across borders: geographic, professional, evidential. Twenty-six chapters of biography function as argument. The method is relentless: I was there, and here is what that reveals about how work works.
Three simultaneous readers
Starting out
The diagnostic as orientation.
Mid-career
Already inside the conditions. The practitioner's toolkit.
In power
Power to change what others must endure. The leader's toolkit.
The biographical ground
Kuwait
The Gulf War
Sweden
Malaysia Boleh
2008 Financial Crisis
The Post Dot Com Boom Era
Algorithms and Workflows
Operations
Management
Leadership
Digital Systems
Economics
Political Movements
The United States
Italy
France
Germany
Lebanon
Jordan
Tunisia
Morocco
Armenia
Georgia
The UAE
Belgium
Brussels Studio
Tech
Cybersecurity
Algorithms
Manufacturing
Publishing
Material Craft
Fine Jewellery
Three volumes
Volume 1 Available now
Diagnostic
The human core and what runs against it
Maps the structural forces that hollow out even good work. The evidence base and the diagnosis.
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Volume 2
Practitioner's toolkit
Instruments for the person in the work
For those mid-career or mid-project. Grounded in structure, not advice.
Volume 3
Leader's toolkit
For those who can change the conditions
For those with financial or institutional power. Not how to survive the structure. How to alter it.
Insights on
01Perceptual acuity under pressure
02Tolerance for structural ambiguity
03Integration of embodied knowledge
04Sustained autonomy of judgment
05Capacity to name what is unnamed
06Recovery without institutional support
07Work that is good, and good work