People & Leadership · Future of Work

The Five Doors of the Second Half

Late-career decision-architecture simulation for Director+/VP/Partner/Founder professionals contemplating an academic or teaching transition.

5 rounds Executive English, Español

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About this simulation

Late-career decision-architecture simulation for Director+/VP/Partner/Founder professionals contemplating an academic or teaching transition. Reframes academia from a binary go/no-go into a five-door selection problem (Tenure-Track Research, Clinical/Practice, Board + Adjunct Hybrid, AMP/Exec-Ed Visiting, Build Your Own).

Across five rounds, the protagonist disambiguates the underlying want from the surface request, ranks the doors by appeal, runs honest 5-year financial math, pre-commits to a 90-day pilot, and locks the anti-drift decision sequence.

Who it is for

An advanced simulation for participants used to working with the main frameworks and trade-offs of the subject, designed for executive education and experienced professionals.

How a session runs

  1. The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
  2. Participants play 5 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results.
  3. The simulation can be run in English, Español.
  4. The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.

Decisions participants make

The decisions participants make during the simulation:

  • Generativity (give back, transmit)
  • Intellectual Community (peers, ideas, depth)
  • Lifestyle Reset (slow down, white space)
  • Status / Identity (the title Professor)
  • Financial Hedge (second income)
  • Your spontaneous Tuesday five years from now
  • Appeal
  • Current annual total comp (€)
  • Runway: years of family living costs already saved
  • Spouse / partner alignment with the pay cut

What participants track

What participants follow on screen as the rounds go by:

  • Distribute 100 Want-Points Across Five Archetypes
  • Score Each Door (0-100)
  • The Money Math
  • The 90-Day Pilot
  • The Decision Sequence
  • Decision Architecture Score by Round

Subjects covered

Designed for courses in Future of Work.

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