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. 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. 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