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AVAILABLE AUGUST 2027

The ultimate competitive advantage isn’t knowing more—it’s seeing what others can’t. Learn to decode the invisible structures, hidden dynamics, and unwritten rules that shape every outcome.

Learn how to uncover the hidden forces that determine which ideas, strategies, and people win and use them to become a force of your own.

In The Most Dangerous Person in the Room, globally recognized innovation strategist and bestselling author Shawn Kanungo teaches readers how to develop the meta-skill that underlies all success: the ability to see patterns across domains, spot opportunities others miss, and create unfair advantages.

Drawing from cognitive science, social psychology, and cutting-edge research, Kanungo offers a new kind of blueprint for intellectually restless professionals who have mastered the rules and basic leadership strategies well enough to know they are arbitrary. Readers will learn how to:

• Read the real architecture of any system: the power, the status codes, the rules no one wrote down
• Catch the signals that predict change while everyone else is still reacting to it
• Use status, taste, and narrative on purpose, instead of being used by them
• Find the doors where competitors see walls
• Create new value by combining what already exists, then change the game so quietly that everyone assumes it was always this way

Information is everywhere. Sight is rare. This is a field guide for becoming the person who sees the whole board, and then decides, on your own terms, what to do with it.

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