Included on another plan
Most labs are open to you. This one is the exception.
This lab is outside your current plan. It is not locked by progress and it is not missing — it simply sits on a different tier, and it will open the moment that changes.
Management · Promote or Protect
Turn 1/3
How do you handle the opening?
Result of Turn 1
The room reads it as a standard being set
Gains
Signal is unambiguous
Retention risk drops
Bar is public
Costs
Headroom spent early
Two peers now waiting
Through Second-Order Thinking: the promotion is the easy consequence. The one that decides your next two quarters is what the two people who did not get it do on Monday.
Compare · your path and Munger’s
Your path
Turn 1 re-forecast · Turn 2 held · Turn 3 held ·
Turn 4 cut 20% · Turn 5 bridge at a 30% discount.
Exited at turn 5 · runway 3 wks at close ·
team 19
Through Inversion · Munger
Turn 1 re-forecast · Turn 2 cut 20% ·
Turn 3 bridge from the existing syndicate · Turns 4–5 unspent.
Exited at turn 2 · runway 9 wks at close ·
team 21
Same scenario, same authored options — only the preference order changed. That is what makes the contrast teach.