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The 1% Seat
One operator's route from a door at 1600 hours to a multi-store chair — a memoir and an operating system. Seventeen chapters, six break points, nine rules.
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Chapter 13 — Breaking the Model
The Nine Rules
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Stations
The Arc
Thirty years of seats, in order. Each one added a rule that the next one tested.
Locked table of contents
Seventeen chapters. Six break points.
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Chapter 1 opens on a door at 1600 hours. It is a memoir and an operating system — the moment the standards installed themselves, before there was a floor, a desk, or a P&L to run.
Everything that follows in the book is downstream of it — the cadence in the break points, the nine rules in Chapter 13, and the blank-sheet blueprint in Chapter 17.
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Work with Roger
Consulting for stores that want the standard to hold
Eight engagements built from the same operating system in the book. Diagnostics first, then structure, then cadence.
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