January 2015
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
7h 13m
English
book
A Beautiful Constraint: How To Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It's Everyone's Business
by Mark Barden, Adam Morgan
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THANKS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
At the heart of this book are the people who gave their time and experiences in the interviews; this is simply a collation of their insights and journeys. We are enormously grateful to:
Sue Allchurch
Rodrigo Arboleda Halaby
Ludo Auvray
Naty Barak
Yves Behar
Michael Bierut
Neil Blumenthal
Tim Brown
Karen Chu
Mike Cooper
Stuart Coulson
Trevor Davis
Porter Gale
John Gerzema
Julian Gorodsky
Katherine Gottlieb
Steven Grasse
Michael Hay
Capt. James Housinger
Martin Huxtable
Rama Iyer
Michael Jordaan
Mary Lou Jepsen
Dr. Caneel Joyce
Hylton Kallner
Geoff Keighley
Colin Kelly
Ben Knelman
Ajoy Krishnamurti
Eric Leininger
Dr. CJ Liu
Janina Marguc
Helen Marriage
Heather McGill
Ravi Naidoo
Professor Gabrielle Oettingen
Professor Jim Patell
Robert Poynton
Marc Priestley
Navi Rajdoo
Dr. Scot Refsland
Paul Seward
Toby Shapshak
Pier Luigi Sigismondi
Dr. Louise Waters and the LPS team
James Watt
Dan Wieden
Behind the scenes, there have also been friends and helpers who introduced us to some of these remarkable people: Richard F. Dallam, Tim Leberecht, George Pereira, Julia Hu, Juan Albanell, Pam Scott and Tim Koogle, Debbe Stern, Richard Hytner, Giles Morgan, Jon Gisby, Trevor Davis, Marcel Corstjens, Jonathan Warburton, Naresh Ramchandani, Norman Adami, John Stenslunde and Robbie Brozin.
And others helped bounce around some of the constituent ideas at an early stage: Jelly Helm, Brian Lanahan, Robin Lanahan, Mark Valentine, Lawrence Wilkinson, Antonio Lucio, Nick Kendall ...
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