207: How to Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, with Mark Barden

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2015

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Mark Barden: A Beautiful Constraint Mark Barden is the author of A Beautiful Constraint: How To Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It's Everyone's Business*. Working with constraints is more and more the norm in today’s organizations. Dr. Seuss was an early example how a constraint helped him develop a style that became uniquely his own. Even if you believe in the potential from constraints, it doesn’t mean you still like them — especially early on. “We are the stories we tell ourselves.” -Mark Barden “As a marketer, you go nowhere if you don’t understand the needs of your audience.” -Mark Barden “Anybody with the right mindset, the right method, and the right motivation, can be better.” -Mark Barden Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

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0:00.0	Virtually all of us face limitations in our daily work and lives when it comes to resources,
0:07.0	budget, availability of time, and yet those limitations don't need to stop us on today's show how to transform your
0:16.7	limitations into advantages. This is Coaching for Leaders, Episode 207.
0:23.7	Produced by Innovate Learning,
0:26.2	Maximizing Human Potential.
0:28.6	Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your
0:36.5	host Dave Stahoviac. We believe leaders are made, not born, and this weekly show will give you access to the best thinkers, resources,
0:47.0	and actions to enhance your leadership skills.
0:51.0	I'm so glad that you have joined me again for today's show or maybe you're
0:54.8	joining for the very first time in that case welcome and today a message
1:00.0	that I know you're gonna want to hear and I hope you're going to walk away with
1:04.7	really thinking differently on how you approach your influence in
1:09.4	organizations, in your industry and maybe even in your own family and I'm really glad to be having a
1:17.0	conversation today with Mark Barden who is the co-author of the book A Beautiful Constraint how to transform your limitations
1:26.4	into advantages and why it's everyone's business.
1:30.2	Mark runs the West Coast business for Eat Fish in the US.
1:34.0	Over his career, he's won the Platinum Award for Direct Response Marketing.
1:38.0	He's taken a dot-com public.
1:40.0	He's warmed up a crowd for Ellen DeGeneres,
1:42.0	and he's even played a Buddhist monk in a Kleenex commercial.
1:46.4	In addition to Strategy Consulting, Mark is a speaker and facilitator.
1:51.0	Mark, I'm gonna go out on not too big a limb and I'm going to guess that you're the first coaching for leaders guest that has ever appeared as a Buddhist monk in a Kleenex commercial. So you got it you got to tell us a little bit about how that happened yeah well quick
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