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A beautiful constraint : how to transform your limitations into advantages, and why it's everyone's business /
This 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 o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
John Wiley & Sons,
2015.
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| Colección: | Online access with DDA: Askews (Psychology)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Beauty or the beast?; The invisible gift; New realities that call for a renewed inventiveness; The Age of Scarcity, The Age of Abundance; What is a constraint? And what do we mean by making it beautiful?; The learning journey: Five groups for whom constraint means more; 1. Creative and problem-solving professionals; 2. Challengers in Business who indeed do more with less; 3. Academic research; 4. Cultures and ideas explicitly linked to overcoming constraints; 5. Old dogs learning new tricks; The structure of the book, and how to use it.
- Chapter 1. Victim, Neutralizer, & TransformerConstraint and ambition; Stages or personalities?; Progressing through the stages; Do we believe it is possible? (Mindset); Do we know how to start to do it? (Method); How much do I want to do it? (Motivation); A gift in Portland; Transformers and their cultures; Knowing when and how to peak; A mindset that sees opportunity in constraint; Deliberately imposing constraints upon ourselves; The stages and strategies in response to constraints; Chapter 2. Break Path Dependence; Why we become "locked-in"; Today's path is really yesterday's path.
- The profits and pitfalls of our habitsSo why do path dependence and lock-in matter, if it has driven past success?; Breaking path dependence in California charter schools; What's in a name?; How does one overcome path dependence?; Naming our tendencies and biases; Surfacing and interrogating the constituent parts of our path dependence; Beginning assumptions; Routines and processes; Expected sources of solutions; Associations and relationships; KPIs and measures of success; Repeatability and renewal; Chapter 3. Ask Propelling Questions; The effect of being asked to do the impossible.
- The nature of a propelling questionGrowing a better quality crop with less water; What makes propelling questions powerful?; Starting to use propelling questions: the different families of constraint and ambition; Constraints of Foundation; Constraints of Resource; Constraints of Time; Constraints of Method; Ambitions of Growth; Ambitions of Impact; Ambitions of Quality; Ambitions of Superiority; Ambitions of Experience; Specificity, Authority, Legitimacy; Who else might ask propelling questions of us, and what happens when they do?; Uber's children and the death of the trade-off.
- The rewards for the unreasonable challengerChapter 4. Can-If; Optimism decays; Can-If; Can-If sequences; Failing forward; Ambitious crowd-control at London 2012; The different types of can-if; We can if we think of it as ... ; We can if we use other people to ... ; We can if we remove x to allow us to y ... ; We can if we access the knowledge of ... ; We can if we introduce a ... ; We can if we substitute x for y ... ; We can if we fund it by ... ; We can if we mix together ... ; We can if we resource it by ... ; The Can-If Map: Using the clusters to approach our own constraints; Learning how to use the Can-If Map.