Operational Leader's Field Guide Companion($24.95Value)

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Most failures at the operational level are not failures of effort. They are failures to recognize which framework the moment requires. The Operational Leader's Field Guide is the reference. This Companion is what you carry. Five sections distilled to what a leader can actually use under pressure: a one-page memory layer of the lines that survive the long day; ten chapters mapped to the cognitive demands of operating under uncertainty; a Diagnostic Index that turns a symptom you noticed at 0300 into the right framework by 0315; and a 20-question Rapid Strategy Screen that fits inside a planning meeting. Designed for the planning room, the field, the operations center, and the moments between - when there is time to think but not time to read. Companion to the Operational Leader's Field Guide (Cogplexiti LLC, 2026). Jayson Coil has nearly three decades of experience leading, supporting, and learning from complex incidents across the United States. He is a U.S. Army veteran, red team instructor, and founder of Cogplexiti LLC, where he advises government, military, and public safety organizations on red teaming, decision-making, and strategic planning. He has helped develop the systems agencies use to manage major incidents - from team-level performance evaluation to interagency planning structures - and has contributed to national-level policy on incident response. He has taught and presented at the National Fire Academy, the U.S. Forest Service, the Department of the Interior, FEMA, the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.