The educational companion to the book

Talent opens the first door.
People skills open every door after that.

The things that actually decide your career: how you speak, how you connect, how you carry yourself. Nobody ever sat you down and taught them. Open Doors does. This is where you put it to work.

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12
Chapters
14
Day system
Inside the book

A book you work, not a book you finish.

Every chapter of Open Doors ends with something to do: an assignment, a named framework, and at the end a fourteen-day system that turns it all into habit. The map of what is inside is here — the work itself is in the book.

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The 14-Day System

Five small daily actions, every day, for fourteen days, scored like a scoreboard. The assignment that closes the book — chapter twelve runs you through it.

See what it is
Chapter by chapter

Twelve chapters

What each one covers and what it asks of you, in the order he teaches it.
By name

Six frameworks

TEEE, FROM, Four Levels, Three-Part Story, 5-Second Rule, YES → ADD → ASK.
The sources

The research

The books and papers every framework stands on, cited chapter by chapter.
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The book that started it

Open Doors

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The young professional's guide to mastering emotional intelligence, communication, and networking — 12 chapters, six frameworks, and the 14-Day System that turns all of it into habit. Foreword by Rick Deadwyler.

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What makes this book stand out is that it is based on experience rather than theory. This is not a book about changing who you are. It is a book about sharpening how you show up.

Rick DeadwylerU.S. Region Corporate Affairs Executive · Foreword
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What's your TEEE Score?

A four-part measure of professional value — the things people actually weigh when they're deciding about you. Score yourself one to ten on each, out of forty — with no seven.

T
TalentWhat you can do
E
EffortHow hard you work unwatched
E
EnergyHow you make people feel
E
ExecutionWhat you actually deliver

The TEEE Score was created by Dr. Kester I. H. Crosse II, MD and appears in Chapter 5 of Open Doors, drawn from two decades of hiring, evaluating and mentoring. Move the sliders — be honest, nobody's watching.

There is no seven. The scale runs one to ten and skips it, exactly as the book does: “Seven is where honesty goes to hide.”

Your score
24/40
Average

Your four scores, your band, and the chapter to read first. No list, no follow-up sequence.

The toolkit

Six frameworks you'll actually remember.

Not theory. Six things short enough to recall in the moment you need them. Tap any card to see what's underneath.

Dr. Kester Crosse in a dark suit
Kester I. H. Crosse II, MD
Who's teaching this

A physician who kept watching talented people get passed over.

Dr. Kester Crosse is a board-certified gastroenterologist who has spent decades evaluating, hiring, coaching, and mentoring hundreds of students, athletes, and professionals across academic, corporate, and clinical settings.

He kept seeing the same thing: the most talented person in the room wasn't the one getting the opportunity. The person who knew how to communicate was. So he wrote down what he'd been teaching one-on-one for years — and that became Open Doors.

Education
Hampton University
Medical degree
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Role
VP Clinical Affairs, Gastro Health
Affiliation
Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.
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Insights

Notes on getting chosen, not just qualified.

Frameworks, research, and pattern recognition from twenty years on the deciding side of the table.

The framework

What Is the TEEE Score?

A four-part measure of professional value, and the one number actually worth working on.
The framework, deeper
Talent Is the Least Important Letter in TEEE
The vision
The Exposure Gap
For institutions
Career Readiness Belongs in the Curriculum
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For universities, employers & chapters

Teach it as a cohort.

Career services, student success, athletics, Greek life, and employee resource groups run Open Doors as a shared text — twelve chapters, eleven assignments, and a scale everyone can put a number to. Volume pricing from 25 copies, and Dr. Crosse can open or close the unit in person.

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