The Six Functions · Book One
Returning to Craft
The Six Functions of a Thriving Business, and the One Where Your Next Growth Is Waiting
- Status
- Available on Amazon
- Publisher
- Firstlight Foundry
- Hardcover
- ISBN 979-8-950557-00-2
Who it is for
Your business is growing. Why does moving it forward keep getting harder? More decisions come back to you. Priorities compete. Your team works hard, yet the same problems return.
Returning to Craft helps you understand how the work fits together, recognize what is holding progress back, and decide where your next effort belongs. It develops that understanding step by step, through situations you can examine and carry back to your own work. For people building a business, and people responsible for making one work.
Watch · Chapter One · 29 minutes
How did work become this complicated?
Join author Jeffrey Schaller for an illustrated reading of “The Inheritance.” Follow the story behind the way we work, and begin to see your own business with fresh eyes.
What is inside
Five parts, nineteen chapters.
Part I · The Inheritance
Why the structures we inherit can feel like the only way to work.
The Inheritance · The Inflection · The Systems Integrator
Part II · The Six Functions
Understand the work every business must perform, and why each part matters.
The Six Functions · Value Creation · Value Delivery · Value Capture · Demand Generation · Coordination · Adaptation
Part III · The Circulation
See the relationships between the functions, and how one can limit the rest.
The Circulation · The Two Triads · The Constraint
Part IV · The Human Layer
Consider the people doing the work, and what each is suited to see.
Six Archetypes for Six Functions · The Founder’s Blind Spot · Triangulation · The Fourth Satellite
Part V · The Diagnostic
Bring the understanding you have built to the business in front of you.
The Constraint Audit · The Pattern at Every Scale
Appendix
The traditions that meet in the framework.
The Convergence Table
Read before you decide
in this room.”
Excerpt · The Preface · 3 min
Sacred Rule
The book opens in a room you will recognize: the meeting where every slide agrees and someone at the table is quiet.
Read the Preface
Excerpt · Chapter Four · 5 min
The Smallest Possible Business
One potter, one Saturday market, and the six functions she performs before anyone names them.
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