Trying to convert an environmental liability into an artistic asset, the Alliance for Downtown New York and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council have transformed three commonplace street impediments into objects that are meant to be more aesthetically appealing.
Like Nipun, wheelchair-bound, short, polio-affected Nirmal Kumar turned one of his major impediments into an opportunity to start a business that served others who also had trouble with conventional transportation.
[ 17, 25, 26, 45, 46] Work on four areas in particular – incentives, standards, a privacy (i.e., confidentiality and security) framework, and funding – will help to convert these impediments into enablers of the NHII.
Particularly when he says, 'I just thought fuck it, you can't change who you are.' Not that he needs me to tell him this because he thinks 'the thing with making films is that you turn everything that could be an impediment into an advantage' - a strategy that's worked to quite spectacular effect.
And if anyone knows how to capitalize on a tricky film's Oscar love, it's Harvey Weinstein, whose Weinstein Company turned an R-rated movie about a British monarch with a speech impediment into a huge hit at Oscar time last year.
The impediments fall into five groups: cost-related, institution-related, labor-related, organization-related, and information-related.
That's a function of some serious impediments to getting into the business".
Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School, talks about how emerging markets throw up opportunities and why these very triggers may turn into impediments.
When she pushed through those impediments, she ran into another barricade, this one of the Supreme Court's making.
If you're a fan of Netflix, for example, net neutrality holds that you should be able to watch its shows without running into impediments your ISP, or Internet service provider, puts up that are designed to push you toward a competing service, such as Hulu.
You're a girl, and you don't do gear and effects and programming and electronics.' " But the questions haven't turned into impediments, and Keren Ann's boldness has also led her to co-write a piece for the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra and an opera, and to schedule a collaboration with the Philadelphia R&B/hip-hop group the Roots, which she'll get to when she arrives in North America in April.
