The Manager Fieldbook: Practical tools for real-world leadership in a changing world
Management can get real in a hurry.
One day you are responsible for your own work, and you are celebrated for it. Then you are promoted. Congratulations. Just like that, you are responsible for other people's work.
The Manager Fieldbook is a practical guide for the moments when leadership stops being theory: when priorities compete, feedback is uncomfortable, someone brings bad news, a decision cannot wait, someone is struggling, or your team is trying to make sense of change.
Built around four pathways of leading, Leading Self, Leading Others, Leading the Business, and Leading Transformation, this fieldbook helps managers turn leadership ideas into observable behaviors.
Each section is intentionally short and practical. Open to the problem in front of you. Consider the framework. Try the practice. Use the reflection space to think. Then take what works back into the real work.
The fieldbook covers topics including self-awareness, emotional intelligence, values, decision-making, resilience, trust, communication, feedback, delegation, conflict, team culture, strategic thinking, stakeholder management, prioritization, business acumen, leading change, experimentation, psychological safety, future thinking, and innovation.
It also includes a structured six-month manager practice for readers who want to work through the material over time.
This is not a book you have to read from beginning to end.
It is a fieldbook to use when you need it. Write in it, mark it up, carry it with you.
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