Scientific Definition
Earned authority from publishing original frameworks that other operators adopt as their own.
Plain-English Definition
Earned authority from publishing original frameworks that other operators adopt as their own.
Feynman Explanation
Influencer = audience. Thought leader = vocabulary that other people start using.
Core Principle
Earned authority from publishing original frameworks that other operators adopt as their own.
Mechanisms
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The compounding asset most professional brands under-invest in.
Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
Influencer = audience. Thought leader = vocabulary that other people start using.
Examples
- Drucker on management, Christensen on disruption, Kahneman on cognitive bias.
- The compounding asset most professional brands under-invest in.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Build one frame so useful that competitors quote it. Then build another.
Measurement Approaches
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Evidence
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The Perverse Incentive Lens™
How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
- Build one frame so useful that competitors quote it. Then build another.
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Interactive Mini Network
Click any neighbor to re-center the graph and follow the threads of connection.
Knowledge Graph Neighbors
Auto-linked to the rest of the Human Behavior Taxonomy by family, domain, dimension, and shared keywords.
A symmetric bell-shaped distribution where most values cluster around the mean.
Unwritten rules of behavior — descriptive (what people do) or injunctive (what people approve of).
Combine extreme safety with extreme risk; avoid the middle.
Game theory adjusted for how humans actually play — including fairness, reciprocity, and limited reasoning.
Allocating finite resources across many fronts when the opponent does the same — no dominant strategy exists.
Coordinated action that produces outcomes unavailable to individual actors.
Designing organizations to ride doubling curves — AI, data, compute, biotech — rather than linear improvement.
Decisions depend on what other strategic actors will do.
Individual rationality produces collective irrationality.
Reverse-engineering the internal sequence — visual, auditory, kinesthetic — an expert uses to produce a result.
Causal chain from inputs to outputs to outcomes to impact.
Start cooperative; copy your counterpart's last move thereafter.