For people building wings inside labyrinths.

Daedalus Press publishes books, tools and field guides for people trying to lead better, notice more clearly, and become more fully themselves.

The Inner Record is the only title published so far. Everything else on this page is in development, with no publication dates set yet.

Why Daedalus

Daedalus built wings so Icarus could rise. That's the half of the myth everyone remembers: ambition, escape, the reach past your own limits.

The half that gets forgotten is the Labyrinth. Daedalus was also the craftsman who built the structure to hold something dangerous, commissioned to design a system that actually worked. He is the only figure in the myth who did both competently. He didn't just dream the escape. He engineered it.

That's the split this imprint is built on. Wings is the interior work, dreams, patterns, the life examined from the inside. Labyrinth is the structural work, leadership, teams, the systems that hold what you've learned. Most presses pick one. Daedalus Press exists because the two were never really separate.

The arc

Four books, one voice, four altitudes.

01

The Inner Record

Live now
The observer turned inward

A dream intelligence method for reflective adults who suspect there's more signal in their inner life than they've been taught to find. Not mystical, not clinical. A practical system for reading what your own mind is telling you overnight.

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02

SIGNALS

Forthcoming
The observer turned outward

The lived narrative. Amplification of human potential, watching a life and the systems it moved through from the outside, so the patterns that shaped it become visible.

03

LeadForward

Forthcoming
The observer turned to design

SIGNALS in leadership. The operational work, an operating system for recruitment, alignment, development and performance, built from what the earlier books observed. Working name, imprint continuing under Daedalus Press regardless of the final title.

04

Field Manual for the Awake

Forthcoming
The observer turned to ethos

The philosophical work, written last, from the high ground of having done the other three. The wisdom that integrates interior, narrative and system into one worldview.

Where to start

Two doors in, one house behind them.

For individuals

Notice more clearly

  • The Inner Record, dream intelligence and self-knowledge
  • SIGNALS, pattern recognition across a life
  • Career development and one-to-one coaching
  • Field notes on becoming more fully yourself
For teams

Lead better

  • LeadForward, recruitment, alignment, development, performance
  • One-page tools and field guides for managers
  • Coaching and leadership development programmes
  • Field Manual for the Awake, the philosophy behind the system
Philip M. Harvey
About the author

Philip M. Harvey

More than two decades in high-performance commercial leadership taught him composure, pattern recognition, and how to read what's really going on beneath what people say. For most of those years he treated his own dreams as noise.

A period of genuine upheaval proved him wrong. The same instinct for reading signals that served him at work turned out to apply just as well to the hours after dark, and to the teams, systems, and choices that led there. Daedalus Press is the result: one voice, four books, working the same instinct at different altitudes.

He writes under the Daedalus Press imprint and lives in Cambridge.

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