The Ambitious Professional's Guide to Surplus offers a year-long journey to navigate from point to point in diverse and sometimes unfamiliar terrain while moving at speed. It can move you and your study groups through thresholds of fitness for surplus. You can conquer hurdles, steer clear of danger, and track milestones along the way. The guide will not only introduce new concepts and principles but also will help establish potent new practices and habits. These include checklists, inventories, and provocative questions - all supported by individual and group activities, check-points, and more.

This book is the result of what started out to be a simple search to find an answer to what was thought to be a simple question: "What is transactionalism?" Until this writing, transactionalism simply had no codified or single source of reference and yet, with very little exception, how the term has been described and explained remained fairly consistent across numerous landscapes of study. Transactionalism is a set of philosophical tools, or a method, employed to address the complexities of human social exchange or transactions. It is a method of inquiry or approach that has been studied and applied to various disciplines including philosophy, education, psychology, political science, economics, and social anthropology.Trevor J. Phillips offers a fundamental and supporting work entitled Transactionalism: An Historical and Interpretive Study. Published by Influence Ecology, with a foreword by Co-Founder Kirkland Tibbels.