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A Beautiful Constraint
How To Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It's Everyone's Business
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An inspiring yet practical guide for transforming limitations into opportunities A Beautiful Constraint: How to Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages And Why It's Everyone's Business Now is a book about everyday, practical inventiveness, designed for the constrained times in which we live.
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An inspiring yet practical guide for transforming limitations into opportunities
A Beautiful Constraint: How to Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages And Why It's Everyone's Business Now is a book about everyday, practical inventiveness, designed for the constrained times in which we live. It describes how to take the kinds of issues that all of us face today—lack of time, money, resources, attention, know-how—and see in them the opportunity for transformation of oneself and one's organisation's fortunes.
The ideas in the book are based on the authors' extensive work as business consultants and are brought to life in 35 personal interviews from such varied sources as Nike, IKEA, Unilever, the U.S. Navy, Formula One racecar engineers, public school teachers in California, and barley farmers in South Africa. Underpinned by scientific research into the psychology of breakthrough, the book is a practical handbook full of tools and tips for how to make more from less. Beautifully designed and accessible, A Beautiful Constraint will appeal beyond its core business audience to anyone who needs to find the opportunity in constraint.
The book takes the reader on a journey through the mindset, method, and motivation required to move from the initial "victim" stage into the transformation stage. It challenges us to:
- Examine how we've become path dependent—stuck with routines that blind us from seeing opportunity along new paths.
- Ask Propelling Questions to help us break free of those paths and put the most pressing and valuable constraints at the heart of our process.
- Adopt a Can If mentality to answer these questions—focused on "how," not "if."
- Access the abundance to be found all around us to help transform constraints.
- Activate the high-octane mix of emotions necessary to fuel the tenacity required for success.
We live in a world of seemingly ever-increasing constraints, driven as much by an overabundance of choices and connections as by a scarcity of time and resources. How we respond to these constraints is one of the most important issues of our time and will be a large determinant of our progress as people, businesses, and planet, in the future. A Beautiful Constraint calls for a more widespread capability for constraint-driven problem solving and provides the framework to achieve that.
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A Beautiful Constraint is praised for offering deep insights and a wealth of knowledge for business leaders and entrepreneurs. Reviewers commend the authors for providing thought-provoking content and engaging case studies that inspire fresh approaches to overcoming challenges. The book is regarded as a motivational tool, gently pushing individuals to enhance both business and personal performance.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781118899014
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 24 February 2015
Country: United States
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 25.0mm
Width: 211.0mm
Height: 206.0mm
Weight: 703g
Pages: 288
About the Author
ADAM MORGAN is the author of Eating The Big Fish: HowChallenger Brands Can Compete Against Brand Leaders, theinternational bestseller that introduced the concept of challengerbrands to the world of marketing. His ideas have been widely citedas a key influence by a new generation of successful entrepreneursand business leaders around the world. He is founder of eatbigfish,a renowned marketing consultancy that works with clients to developtheir own breakthrough strategies, from Helsinki to Hanoi. MARK BARDEN runs the west coast business for eatbigfishin the US. Over his career he's won the Platinum Award for directresponse marketing, taken a dot com public, warmed up a crowd forEllen De Generes, and played a Buddhist monk in a Kleenexcommercial. His advice on how to create breakthrough thinking withoutsize results is much sought after. He is a popular speaker,world class facilitator and occasional coach.
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