Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction
Six parts
Building your own toolkit
Part 1 Pathway: ... from disruption to advantage
Chapter 1 The moment
Martin Bean: leaning into disruption
Never to go back
No plan survives first contact with the enemy
Positive disruption
Graham Winter: finding the right moment
Martin's playbook
The gathering storm
Advantage leaders
Insights
Turning adversity to advantage
Chapter 2 Advantage leader
The accelerant
In-the-field experience
The toolkit
Mental models

Graham Winter: reimagine and reset
The three principles
Principle 1. Calibrate your mindset
Principle 2. Engage your team to build, test and learn a new toolkit
Principle 3. Be the coach your people need
Encouragement
Part 2 Mindset: ... from defensive to adaptive
Chapter 3 Linear versus nonlinear
Context shapes us
Know your challenges
Capability 1. Notice the differences
Be alert to the nature of challenges
Capability 2. Adapt your approach
Capability 3. Apply different tools
The most common leadership failure
Beware the dragons

Alert your team to the nonlinear
Recap
Chapter 4 Defeat the defensive mindset
Superpower
Defensive or adaptive?
Why adaptive mindset matters so much
Train your adaptive mindset
See
The threat response
What is happening?
How do you know?
Squirm
Welcome to the squirm
Threat and reward
Embrace the squirm
Seek
Go towards the fire
Decompartmentalise after
Recap
Mindset can change at scale
Why change doesn't have to be slow
Make the implicit explicit
Part 3 Recalibrate: ... your leadership paradigms
Chapter 5 Paradigm shifts

Paradigms and mindsets
Element A. Ride the storm
1. Understand your new context
2. Reimagine your strategy
3. Switch on your team
4. 10x communication
5. Loop and learn
Element B. Create the storm
1. Scan for opportunities
2. Challenge and change assumptions
3. Get your team on board
4. Coach for innovation
5. Nail the landing
Element C. Recalibrate your mindset
Chapter 6 It starts with you. Anchor on personal values
Reimagine
Graham Winter: black swan decisions
Real values aren't on the wall
1. Authenticity
2. Awareness
3. Adaptability

Graham Winter: on meeting Martin for the first time
Martin Bean: courage is my starting point
The values anchor
Values in action
Chapter 7 Let go. Accept the externalityof change
The psychology of certainty and control
Go with the instability
Core principles
Principle 1. Embrace the highway of uncertainty
Crossing the highway of uncertainty
Remember the adaptive squirm
Principle 2. Deal with loss
Letting go means loss
The pathway and loss
Control is overrated. Cross the highway
Chapter 8 Dial up the learning
Loops and insights
The pace is on