EMBRACING CONSTRAINTS: THE SKY'S THE LIMIT AND GRAVITY'S GOOD, TOO

摘要

If your enterprise is young, perhaps floundering, embracing the invigorating potential of constraints can help you get off the ground. Identify how the limitation you face can be harnessed to serve your interest. Maintaining a friendly, elevating level of constraint helps build the structure by which you can ascend the S-curve to success. If your business is older and already successful, imposing needed constraints can generate an energy boost to counteract the risk of aimless drifting or even a loss of altitude. Innovation is like helium in a child's balloon, but we want our dream to float, not drift away into oblivion. Embracing constraint is like tying a string to tether the balloon to an object fixed by gravity, a tiny fist, perhaps, or a lamppost, or stair rail. Constraints make it possible for us to fly.