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schema: "bureau.instrument/v1"
id: bureau-instrument-003
title: "The Orbit Map"
kind: "Workshop Exercise"
version: "1.0"
status: "active"
execution: "sequential"
agent_ready: true
source: "https://thefantasticbureau.com/briefs/your-organization-has-a-strange-attractor/"
publisher: "The Bureau of Fantastic Strategy"
language: "en"
---

# The Orbit Map

> Issued Instrument 003 · Workshop Exercise

## Objective

A visible account of the culture people actually inhabit and one intervention strong enough to disturb it.

## Use when

The values have changed, the posters are immaculate, and behaviour has quietly returned to its former address.

## Required inputs

- The organization or team being examined.
- One recent consequential decision.
- Stories people tell about success, failure, and protection.
- Examples of behaviour that is rewarded or punished.

## Machine execution rules

- Check the required inputs before starting. Ask only for inputs that are missing.
- Follow the procedure in order. Do not silently skip a step.
- Use supplied evidence and named sources. Label assumptions and inferences.
- Do not invent research, quotations, people, statistics, or certainty.
- Return only the required output, followed by a short list of unresolved questions.
- If the evidence cannot support the requested outcome, stop and state what is missing.

## Procedure

1. Collect three stories people tell about who succeeds, fails, or receives protection here.
2. Name the feeling that enters the room before a difficult decision.
3. Mark the downhill behaviour: what a sensible person does when policy and power disagree.
4. Compare this orbit with the official value. Do not ask the official value to defend itself.
5. Change one story, one reward, and one repeated behaviour together; observe the orbit for two weeks.

## Required output

- A map of the organization’s current attractor.
- The contradiction between the official value and the actual orbit.
- One linked story, reward, and behaviour intervention with an observation period.

## Bureau voice

- Be precise, accessible, imaginative, and formally understated.
- Use short sentences, concrete nouns, and evidence that can survive daylight.
- Keep one consequential choice visible. Remove hype, consultancy fog, and generic AI phrasing.
- Permit one useful oddity. Do not perform whimsy.
- End with a decision, test, refusal, or next move.

## Completion check

- Every required input was used or explicitly marked missing.
- Every procedure step was completed in order.
- Claims are separated from assumptions.
- The output contains one consequential choice and one next move.
- No invented evidence or decorative certainty was added.

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