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Guides

Put the best books to work.

Guides — landmark books, made executable.

Each guide is a chapter-by-chapter companion: the research that backs the book, the methods to execute it, and the analyses it implies — built so you can actually do the thing, not just read about it. More guides land over time.

Why guides

A book tells you what to do; a guide gets it done. Each one pairs the source’s argument with peer-reviewed evidence and the concrete methods — and links to the tools that run the analyses the chapter implies. The reference library is the shelf; the guides are the how-to.

The spine

The Four-S Spine — one discipline in four capabilities

PeopleAnalyst is built on four integrated capabilities. Each is a mature body of knowledge on its own; the discipline is their merge — and it fails, quietly, whenever one is missing. These four guides are the spine, and the master guide resolves them into one system — the functional framework, the failure modes, and a process you can run.

  1. 1 · Science

    The behavioral model — what's actually true about people and organizations, grounded in research methods.

    the Science guide →

  2. 2 · Statistics

    Choosing the right method and trusting the answer — reliability, validity, generalization.

    the Statistics guide →

  3. 3 · Systems

    The data and AI engineering that makes the analysis run, at scale and reliably.

    the Systems guide →

  4. 4 · Strategy

    The decision the whole apparatus serves — durable, measurable advantage.

    the Strategy guide →

All capability guides — a whole discipline, from its books

→ the reference library

Each guide reduces a reference library — 25 to 33 books — to the discipline it argues: the build-it path and the substantive model, with every source book linked to its profile in the library.