Ledbetter: use limitations to fuel success


  • October 26, 2015
  • /   Mike Ensley
  • /   studer-community-institute

Singer Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones in 1976.

EntreCon Keynote Speaker and Inc.com Editor James Ledbetter learned from the authors of A Beautiful Constraint: How to Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It's Everybody's Business, Adam Morgan and Mark Barden, that often being limited by circumstance can provide the innovation and keys to success.

He offers two examples of the idea in a blog: Google and Mick Jagger.

Google's simplicity was a by-product of a programmer with limited coding skills, but when the site launched, it became as asset.

"While the rest of the search brands visually cluttered their home pages, Google's simplicity stood out for its understated respect for the user," write Adam Morgan and Mark Barden in their new book A Beautiful Constraint: How to Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It's Everybody's Business.

And Jagger's trademark moves? All the result of a lack of space.

Mick Jagger's signature stage moves, for example, grew out of the fact that in the Rolling Stones' earliest days, the tiny venues in which the band played left almost no room for the singer, once the band's equipment was loaded onstage. Jagger developed what he could in a confined space, and the rest is swaggering history.

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