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1 online resource |
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text file |
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Online access with DDA: Askews (Psychology)
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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 one's organization's fortunes. The ideas presented 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, it is a handbook full of tools and tips for how to make more from less. It will appeal beyond its core business audience to anyone who needs to find the opportunity in constraint. -- Edited summary from book. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Success in business -- Psychological aspects.
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Creative ability in business.
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Corporate turnarounds.
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Succès dans les affaires -- Aspect psychologique. |
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Créativité dans les affaires. |
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Entreprises -- Redressement. |
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Corporate turnarounds |
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Creative ability in business |
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Success in business -- Psychological aspects |
| Added Author |
Barden, Mark, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781118899014 |
| ISBN |
9781118899458 (electronic bk.) |
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1118899458 (electronic bk.) |
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1118899431 (electronic bk.) |
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9781118899434 (electronic bk.) |
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