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Field manual · Leadership

Leadership, in practice. Not in theory.

Twenty-three canonical frameworks, ready to open Monday morning. Not a treatise on character: a toolbox for leading with clarity.

23
practical cards
10
families of situations
14 days
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Annual subscription · individual licence · available in French and English

The stance

Most books tell you who to become. Meanwhile, Tuesday’s meeting is still waiting for its decision.

More authentic, more visionary, more attuned: fine ambition. This toolbox takes the opposite tack. Not a treatise on character, a toolbox: known, named, sourced frameworks that the best managers keep in their back pocket for the moments when things get complicated.

These frameworks aren’t recipes. They’re ways to ask better questions. The day you mistake the tool for the answer, you’ve already lost what matters most: your judgment.

What’s inside

Twenty-three frameworks, ten families.

01
Set direction and meaning
The golden circle · Sensemaking
02
Align and rally
OKRs · Transformational leadership
03
Decide and execute
The Eisenhower matrix · Cynefin
04
Grow your people
Radical Candor · Codevelopment · Flow
05
Cultivate culture and climate
The six styles · Psychological safety · The Lencioni pyramid
06
Lead change
The 8 steps of change · Adaptive leadership
07
Design and innovate
The double diamond · The Business Model Canvas
08
Facilitate and decide as a group
The Lightning Decision Jam · Liberating Structures · The effort/impact matrix
09
Personal clarity and cooperation
The ACT Matrix · The Prosocial model
10
Influence and power
Cialdini’s influence strategies · The forms of power
📘 Bonus: The theoretical foundation — a reference document on the great schools of leadership, the verdict of meta-analyses, and a critique of the models. Downloadable.

Three cards, to set the tone.

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Family I · Card 01

The golden circle

“People don’t buy what you do. They buy why you do it.”

Family V · Card 11

Psychological safety

“The question isn’t whether your team makes mistakes. It’s whether they dare to tell you.”

Family III · Card 06

Cynefin

“The same good decision can be brilliant in one context and disastrous in another.”

How it’s built

Each tool fits on a single card.

Designed to be opened at the moment that counts, not read cover to cover.

01
The essentials

The framework in plain words, no jargon. What it says, in two minutes.

02
For Monday morning

Concrete moves you can apply right away, not in six months.

03
Why it works

The logic behind the tool, so you use it with discernment.

04
The friction

Where the model meets our real world: actual organizations on the ground.

05
Pro tips

The shortcuts and pitfalls you only learn through practice.

06
The line to remember

A phrase that sticks, ready to bring out at the right moment.

Who I am

Sébastien Bélisle

Sébastien Bélisle

Manager · Board director · Lecturer

A manager for over 25 years, I have served and still serve on several boards of directors. Leading, for me, has never been a matter of theory: it’s a daily practice, with its very real constraints.

The content of this toolbox is made of practical tools I’ve discovered, tested and refined over the 13 years I’ve taught the MBA’s Strategic Leadership course. I kept the ones that hold up in the field, and named honestly what creates friction when you actually apply them.

The toolbox is published under Kodra.

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