摘要：This feature article describes The Playmaker Influence Decision System, a patented table and ontology of 24 irreducibly unique stratagems, likened by its architect and the author, Alan Kelly, to exhaustive frameworks in chemistry, biology, and music. The system, which allows users to definitively decode, define, and anticipate the plans and programs of communication and influence professionals, is detailed through accounts of the author’s encounters with Dr. James E. Grunig, the communication scholar and principal author of The Excellence Theory among other seminal works. Included with this article is a video series featuring a moderated debate between Kelly and Grunig.p
