Course lesson · Lesson 3
Constraints, Leapfrogging, and Realistic Budgets
Practice strategy under real limits — power, compute, talent, donor dependence, political time — by finding the one binding constraint and sequencing everything else around it.
What you'll take away
- Identify the single binding constraint that, unaddressed, makes everything else impossible.
- Sequence a strategy outward from that constraint rather than pretending it away.
- Explain leapfrogging as a sequencing decision enabled by shared digital rails, not a spending decision.
- Turn a constraint analysis into honest budget logic — what gets funded first, and why.
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Resources
- Optional deep dive: constraints and leapfrogging readingreading
- Optional deep dive: constraints and leapfrogging exerciseexercise