A Beautiful Constraint: How to Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It's Everyone's Business (Hardcover)

Introduction 1

The beauty in constraint, and why it matters

1. Victim, Neutralizer, & Transformer 16

Our starting relationship with constraints

2. Break Path Dependence 34

The behaviors and practices that stop us seeing opportunity in constraint

3. Ask Propelling Questions 56

How to frame the constraint to force breakthrough

4. Can-If 78

How to find solutions to constraint-driven problems

5. Creating Abundance 102

How to see and access resources we don’t have

6. Activating Emotions 124

How to fuel tenacity on the journey

7. The Fertile Zero 146

Learning from people who succeeded with next to nothing

8. Constraint-Driven Cultures 172

How big companies have learned to love constraints

9. Scarcity and Abundance 194

Why this capability is so important to all of us today

10. Making Constraints Beautiful 208

How to use the ABC approach

11. Leadership & The Future of Constraints 224

The opportunity for progress

Notes and Sources 235

Bibliography and Further Reading 249

Image Credits 251

Appendix 253

Thanks and Acknowledgments 263

Index 267