When Resources Are Thin, Borrow Brilliantly 🧠

You know the feeling: a problem lands on your desk, and the usual tools—budget, staff, time—are simply not there. Maybe it's a client who needs a result you can't deliver the standard way. Maybe it's a project that's stalled because a key resource vanished. In those moments, the instinct is to push harder with what you have. But pushing harder rarely works when the problem is structural. The better move is to look sideways. The Scarcity Trap When resources are tight, we tend to narrow our focus…