Kieron Scott-Woodhouse, from Shepherds Bush in London, a 23 year old student, has designed a new Android phone clad in bamboo, destined initially for the growing Chinese market (Click the picture to see their website.)  You have to admit that is fresh thinking, instead of oil-based plastics, they use totally renewable resources which are strong, light and very stylish.

This kind of reframing of limitations and expectations is vital in every business and frankly every life.  We are like the elephants who are trained from babies to accept a rope tether.  Of course the adult elephant could easily break it but having been used to this fragile restraint since they were young, they never test it.  We need to challenge our habits and thinking.  Most limitations are not real, but arbitrary or self-imposed.  This were an external facilitator or coach can be so useful, by simply challenging people’s ideas of what they can and cannot do.  It is worth having one person in a meeting whose job it is simply to ask “Why?”

“Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.”  Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you’ll see the way to fly.”   Richard Bach