Title:
Obliquity : why our goals are best achieved indirectly
Author:
Edition:
1st American ed.
Publication Date:
2011
Publication Information:
New York : Penguin Press, c2011.
Physical Description:
228 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
ISBN:
9781594202780
Abstract:
Draws on examples from many disciplines to argue that complex and broadly defined goals are better achieved when approached in an open, indirect manner that focuses on means, instead of a rigidly direct approach that focuses on ends.
Contents:
Obliquity -- The oblique world : how obliquity surrounds us. Fulfillment ; The profit-seeking paradox ; The art of the deal ; Objectives, goals, and actions ; The ubiquity of obliquity -- The need for obliquity : why we often can't solve problems directly. Muddling through ; Pluralism ; Interaction ; Complexity ; Incompleteness ; Abstraction -- Coping with obliquity : how to solve problems in a complex world. The flickering lamp of history ; The Stockdale paradox ; The hedgehog and the fox ; The blind watchmaker ; Bend it like Beckham ; Order without design ; Very well then, I contradict myself ; Dodgy dossiers -- The practice of obliquity.
Language:
English
