Constraints can seem like the last thing you’d want for a creative project, but they’re actually beneficial when it comes to doing good work. If you’ve ever faced the common writer’s hurdle of the ...

For decades, the dominant view among psychologists was that constraints served as a barrier to creativity. Anybody who spends a short time working under a confining bureaucracy, dealing with a ...

What is one of the most frequent points of feedback that leaders receive from innovation teams? “We don’t have enough budget, people and/or time.” Yet, organizations, even the multibillion-dollar ...

Imagine being tasked with creating something new and having the world at your disposal. You can invent whatever you want, made from any material you choose, in any color, size or shape you’d like.

Problem solving in business, in general, and marketing, in particular, is a complex process that generally requires the input of many with all seeing different sides of the same problem. Within the ...

Changes in business and economic conditions place constraints on small-business owners and managers. Globalization means that economic problems in one country or region can spread quickly to other ...

A novel management theory looks past individual leaders to constraints that might limit their effectiveness. As a leader, you may sense the heavy mantle of work to be done, employees to motivate, ...

Different classes of genome sequence, genome architectures, gene repertoires and molecular phenomes are subject to diverse evolutionary constraints that greatly vary in strength and in the nature of ...