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The books behind roletype

The 27-role model is an applied synthesis of a mature literature. These are the books that shaped it — worth reading whether or not you take the assessment.

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Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital

Carlota Perez

The macro theory behind the whole approach — how technological revolutions and financial capital move together across a cycle.

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Crossing the Chasm

Geoffrey A. Moore

How products cross from early adopters to the mainstream — and why the people behind them face a different economy on each side of the chasm.

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Diffusion of Innovations

Everett M. Rogers

The classic map of how innovations spread through a population — the adopter categories roletype reads from the supply side.

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The Innovator's Dilemma

Clayton M. Christensen

Why great firms fail by doing everything right — the disruption dynamic that reshuffles who wins each cycle.

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So Good They Can't Ignore You

Cal Newport

The case that skill, not pre-existing passion, is what makes work meaningful — the fit logic at the heart of the assessment.

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Only the Paranoid Survive

Andrew S. Grove

How to recognize a strategic inflection point and act before the curve turns — timing, from someone who ran Intel through several.

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