Breaking Through Constraints (SSIR)
An Essay in Which My Friend Feels Stuck and I Suggest Relaxing Some Constraints
Henrik Karlssonhenrikkarlsson.xyzWhat if a company did everything within its power to create the conditions for individuals to overcome their own internal barriers to change, to take stock of and transcend their own blind spots, and to see errors and weaknesses as prime opportunities for personal growth? What would it look like to “do work” in a way that enabled organizations and
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This makes me realize that what I said earlier in this essay is not enough. You can’t simply list what you want to do and figure out how to do more of that. You also need to surface the unarticulated constraints that you have floating around, and that are making what you were born to do needlessly hard or impossible. You must bring into light the... See more