The EGO in the room

Your organisation has two structures. One is on paper — the org chart, the job titles, the stated values. The other one actually runs things. Most books about corporate success teach you the first structure. This book teaches you the second. The Ego in the Room is a complete field guide to the psychology of power in organisational life: why excellent work gets ignored, how decisions are really made, what your boss actually needs from you, and how to navigate all of it without losing yourself in the process. Drawing on psychology, real-world scenarios, and twenty-seven chapters of field-tested insight, this book gives you the frameworks, language, and tactics to operate effectively inside any complex human system — from the boardroom to the first ninety days of a new role. This is the book nobody gives you when you start your career. The one that explains why the rules you were taught are not the rules the game is actually played by.