Signal Labs · Behavioural Intelligence
The Personal Brand, Measured.
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The Lion in the Grass
The hidden patterns behind who we trust.
A lion in the grass does not perform being a lion.
You know it by its pattern, the shape of how it moves, even when the grass is high and you cannot see the whole animal. That pattern underneath the noise is the most trustworthy thing about any creature, and about any person. This book is a way to find yours, and to stop hiding it under a version of yourself you thought would go over better.
You probably expected a book about personal brand. It is, but not in the way the shelf means it. It is close to the opposite: a way home to the self that was there before the performances started, and to learn to live it out loud.
The Pattern-Reading Animal
Why a small set of ancient patterns governs how we are recognized and trusted.
The Cast of Characters
The full system, twelve archetypes, thirty-six faces, and the six signals that make any identity readable.
Cracking Your Code
The instrument that turns all of it into a personal result, and what to do with it.
The System in the Wild
The Codes of the Greats, and the last original thing.
Everything points toward one question: who are you, at your best?
A self, a brand, and an organization are the same kind of thing seen at three magnifications. Each tells a stated story, a lived story, and a perceived one, and each thrives or decays on a single variable: whether those three are the same story. A person you can read, you trust. A brand you can read, you buy. A company that makes sense, you stay at. It is one pattern, all the way up and all the way down.
The book makes the case in story. The white paper makes it in evidence. They are the same argument, told twice.
Dean Foerter
The Professor of Personal Brand
Founder of Signal Labs and creator of the Behaviour Code. Twenty years of brand strategy turned inward, and made measurable. He was the first subject the instrument ever read, and the first case it ever won. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario.
The instrument from the book’s Part Three. Live, free and under 10 minutes.
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