QAspire

JULY 14, 2010

Leadership is all about doing the best amidst constraints. Like you wrote in your comment about Bhagawat Gita’s message about Karma ~ Plow the land, seed the plant, water it, fruits will come anyways. By Tanmay , July 16, 2010 @ 5:40 am @Jay - Thanks. You rightly pointed out that all behaviors are modeled at the top.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 24, 2009

June 2009: Creativity, Effectiveness and Constraints I have always experienced that constraints boost creativity and spur insights. May 2009: 25 Lessons Learnt on Conducting Productive Meetings We know that meetings can be a huge waste if not conducted well. Read on to know more.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Not long ago, Teresa Amabile revealed in an HBR blog post that while she had spent much of her career as a research psychologist showing how constraints can undermine creativity, she had discovered that the right sort of constraints can in fact "stoke the innovation fire.". The answer, by the way, is "glass.").

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QAspire

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Give Targets and Measure – Throw reasonable constraints at your team. Constraints can fire up creativity. They don’t always need solutions which they just need to ‘implement’. If you always ask people to implement your ideas, you are killing their creativity. Give a problem but also give a reasonable deadline.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

” These questions are especially agonizing for mid-career professionals who may be searching for fulfillment while juggling demands at home and intense financial pressures to earn. How should you address a mid-career crisis? Mid-career malaise runs deep. “The constraints are actually helpful.”

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Career How To Learning-by-Doing Constraint 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Shapiro: One area where it’s very useful is in identifying the constraints terrorist groups face. So looking at what their “talent pool” was back then can help reveal the constraints the current incarnation, the Islamic State or ISIS, is likely under now, and help you understand where you might clamp down on them.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Shapiro: One area where it’s very useful is in identifying the constraints terrorist groups face. So looking at what their “talent pool” was back then can help reveal the constraints the current incarnation, the Islamic State or ISIS, is likely under now, and help you understand where you might clamp down on them.

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Constraint Bureaucracy Document Operations 8

QAspire

JANUARY 5, 2011

This is how a “constraint” mindset works. They define their work processes and implement them across the organization to get certified against a certain standard (like ISO). Standards enforce compliance and sometimes, leaders falls in a trap of linking the level of compliance with performance of individuals.

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Compliance Process Bottom-up Blog 139

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

I would suggest that rather than seeking what cannot in most cases ever be achieved, that it makes more sense to seek the highest standard of quality that can be delivered in the shortest period of time, and that is economically balanced relative to the constraints of an ever shifting marketplace.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

The concept was big for companies, too, of course; the prospect of finding people beyond the offline constraints, and even in the next city, state, or country, was a tantalizing one. While LinkedIn was ramping up, Monster would hit fever pitch: by 2006, it was one of the 20 most visited sites on the web.

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