The Invisible Tax: Practitioner's Field Workbook - BRMConnect 2026 Special Edition
From Diagnosis to Action
A BRM-focused workbook in development, exploring how to make coordination costs visible, strengthen shared understanding, and turn cross-boundary insight into practical action.
By Aaron Monroe
- Publication
- Date to be announced
About the book
This BRMConnect Special Edition is being developed to apply The Invisible Tax through Business Relationship Management capabilities. It explores the work that crosses organizational boundaries: how people interpret signals, define value, shape demand, and coordinate when no single role owns every decision or resource.
The current development edition brings together BRM application modules on signal inventory, boundary mapping, value translation, AI amplification, intervention design, and a 30-day action plan, alongside the complete six-week field workbook. Additional application checks examine how to shape demand and demonstrate a defensible contribution to value.
This is a fuller workbook in development, separate from the short BRMConnect 2026 Field Guide offered through the conference survey. Content and publication details may change as development continues.
About the author
Aaron Monroe
Author • Thinker • Change Leader
United States
Aaron Monroe is the author of The Invisible Tax: Why Better Technology Cannot Fix a Disconnected Organization.
His work explores a persistent question: why do capable people, clear intentions, and powerful tools so often fail to produce collective movement? Drawing on years of experience inside large organizations and transformation work, he examines the hidden costs that accumulate between teams, functions, leaders, and decisions.
Aaron began his corporate career as a college student working on General Electric's Executive IT Helpdesk, supporting senior leaders from GE's headquarters in Fairfield, Connecticut, and its offices at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. That early view of a formidable operating system, and the people and relationships beneath it, helped shape questions he would carry throughout his career.
In The Invisible Tax, he combines a fictional business narrative with research and a practical operating framework. The form reflects his broader writing interests: ideas are often easier to understand when readers can first see them happening to people.
His work is guided by a simple ambition: help people see more clearly, think more deeply, and act with purpose.
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