Practicum for Chapter 7, "Skills that gain value"

The chapter names five scarce capabilities that gain value: judgment, taste, trust, attention, and distribution. This page helps you test them against your own work and choose one move.

What to do in 30 minutes

  1. Complete the Five deficits audit: 3 tasks from your week → a map of the deficits.
  2. Choose one deficit and one move for the quarter.
  3. Review the latest evidence in what employers pay for skills.

Version: 2026-06-20.

Chapter 7. Skills that gain value