Quote by Kim Lauersdorf, Fortune 20 executive: "Lurrie has found all the memos. All is revealed in Panic. The intricate and the intentional. All pieces of the machine that were designed to keep you working, not wondering."
Quote from William C Broderick, MS, MBA, Healthcare Executive: "PANIC with Credentials, the first book to emerge from the world of BestGuessistan, is a masterclass in satirical diagnosis. What looks playful is doing serious analytical work."
Quote by Kim Lauersdorf, Fortune 20 executive: "Lurrie has found all the memos. All is revealed in Panic. The intricate and the intentional. All pieces of the machine that were designed to keep you working, not wondering."
Panic with Credentials book cover

Available in paperback and Kindle edition

PANIC WITH CREDENTIALS is a field guide to how modern institutions fail—quietly, professionally, and at great human cost.

Written by a former corporate executive who spent decades inside leadership rooms—and later lost professional fluency after a traumatic brain injury—this book examines what becomes visible when the ability to perform competence inside the system suddenly disappears.

From that vantage point, a different picture emerges: organizations that prioritize continuity over correction, optics over ownership, and “resilience” over responsibility.

Quote about Panic with Credentials, by Jaime Schwarz, reading, "Post-trauma, bureaucracy becomes an enemy dragon. What this book gives you is counter-bureaucracy — the language and stance to survive systems that were never designed with you in mind."

PANIC with Credentials does not promise recovery.

It offers orientation.

And once you see how the load is transferred, you cannot unsee it.

Quote from William C Broderick, MS, MBA, Healthcare Executive: "PANIC with Credentials, the first book to emerge from the world of BestGuessistan, is a masterclass in satirical diagnosis. What looks playful is doing serious analytical work."

Once you start seeing it, it shows up everywhere. You may start noticing patterns.

What gets renamed.
What gets deferred.
What gets absorbed—and by whom.

Share your own PANIC WITH CREDENTIALS observations, field notes, or moments.