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Altitude Mapping Protocols™
How to read the developmental altitude of a person, a team or a room — without turning it into a verdict.
1 chapter · 27,662 words · Narrated
Altitude is the shorthand this body of work uses for the complexity of meaning a person can hold at a given moment. Reading it well is the difference between a conversation that lands and one that goes over somebody or beneath them. Reading it badly is how developmental language becomes a way of ranking people, which is the failure mode this volume spends most of its length preventing.
The protocols here are listening instruments rather than tests: what to attend to in how a person accounts for a conflict, what the tells are for a threshold in progress, and the specific ways an assessor projects their own altitude onto the person in front of them. It assumes you will use this on colleagues and clients, and is written to make that use safe.
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How this book was made. Many volumes in this house were written with machine assistance. That is the author's declared working method, not a thing found out later, and the practice is itself a published paper with a DOI — Externalized Cognition: A Developmental Theory of Human–AI Co-Creation. The argument, the judgement and the name on the cover are the author's.