-Titulo Original : A Beautiful Constraint How To Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, And Why Its Everyones Business
-Fabricante :
Wiley
-Descripcion Original:
Review a wealth of knowledge, insight and evidence to learn from (The Marketing Society, April 2015) “Morgan and Barden have produced a thought-provoking book for leaders and entrepreneurs looking to inject fresh thinking into their perspectives on business”. (The Irish Times, May 2015)“..there are tons of inspiring and interesting case studies….it will inspire, guide and challenge you to find your way around - if not over - that hurdle you currently face.” (Marketing, June 2015)“..in the assured hands of Morgan and Barden, it’s a gentle but insistent boot up the backside for anyone who wants to improve their business - or personal - performance” (PR Week, July 2015) An inspiring yet practical guide for transforming limitations into opportunitiesA Beautiful Constraint: How to Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages And Why Its Everyones 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 ones organizations 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 weve become path dependent-stuck with routines that blind us from seeing opportunity along new pathsAsk Propelling Questions to help us break free of those paths and put the most pressing and valuable constraints at the heart of our processAdopt a Can If mentality to answer these questions-focused on how, not ifAccess the abundance to be found all around us to help transform constraintsActivate the high-octane mix of emotions necessary to fuel the tenacity required for successWe 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. From the Inside Flap A BEAUTIFUL CONSTRAINTThis is a practical handbook about everyday inventiveness, designed for the constrained times in which we live. Underpinned by the latest research from social science, the authors interviewed individuals and teams in disciplines as varied as marketing, supply chain, race car engineering, design, agronomy and education, all of whom had turned apparent constraints into sources of possibility and advantage. This book transforms these learnings into a tool kit to help you make more from less, describing the mindset, method and motivation required to make constraints beautiful. It challenges us to: Examine how weve become path dependent-stuck with routines that blind us from seeing the opportunity in our constraintsAsk Propelling Questions to break free of our old ways and put the most pressing and valuable constraints at the heart of our processAdopt a Can-If mentality to answer these questions-focused on ho
-Fabricante :
Wiley
-Descripcion Original:
Review a wealth of knowledge, insight and evidence to learn from (The Marketing Society, April 2015) “Morgan and Barden have produced a thought-provoking book for leaders and entrepreneurs looking to inject fresh thinking into their perspectives on business”. (The Irish Times, May 2015)“..there are tons of inspiring and interesting case studies….it will inspire, guide and challenge you to find your way around - if not over - that hurdle you currently face.” (Marketing, June 2015)“..in the assured hands of Morgan and Barden, it’s a gentle but insistent boot up the backside for anyone who wants to improve their business - or personal - performance” (PR Week, July 2015) An inspiring yet practical guide for transforming limitations into opportunitiesA Beautiful Constraint: How to Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages And Why Its Everyones 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 ones organizations 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 weve become path dependent-stuck with routines that blind us from seeing opportunity along new pathsAsk Propelling Questions to help us break free of those paths and put the most pressing and valuable constraints at the heart of our processAdopt a Can If mentality to answer these questions-focused on how, not ifAccess the abundance to be found all around us to help transform constraintsActivate the high-octane mix of emotions necessary to fuel the tenacity required for successWe 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. From the Inside Flap A BEAUTIFUL CONSTRAINTThis is a practical handbook about everyday inventiveness, designed for the constrained times in which we live. Underpinned by the latest research from social science, the authors interviewed individuals and teams in disciplines as varied as marketing, supply chain, race car engineering, design, agronomy and education, all of whom had turned apparent constraints into sources of possibility and advantage. This book transforms these learnings into a tool kit to help you make more from less, describing the mindset, method and motivation required to make constraints beautiful. It challenges us to: Examine how weve become path dependent-stuck with routines that blind us from seeing the opportunity in our constraintsAsk Propelling Questions to break free of our old ways and put the most pressing and valuable constraints at the heart of our processAdopt a Can-If mentality to answer these questions-focused on ho


