Obliquity john kay

The more things change, the more they stay the same. It is a well written and persuasively argued case for going about achieving things indirectly, in an exploratory, provisional way. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. We can and should be satisfied with an outcome that is good enough. The Germans defeated the Maginot Line by going round it, while Japanese invaders bicycled through the Malayan jungle to capture Singapore, whose guns faced out to sea.

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Obliquity January 17, The Germans defeated the Maginot Line by going round it, while Japanese invaders bicycled through the Malayan jungle to capture Singapore, whose guns faced out to sea.

Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly

In its own right, it's actually quite devious. Besides, I was starting to get uncomfortable with the implicit politics of what is effectively a management theory.

Really good, engaging little look at lateral thinking and oblique approaches vs direct ones, as applied to decision making in business and life. My particular ksy were in public finance and industrial organisation.

Communities are complex organisms, imperfectly understood, and their functioning depends on their social relations. Oct 08, Mikedariano rated it liked it. Twentieth- century planners could redesign our environment from first principles.

Obliquity – Why our goals are best achieved indirectly - - John Kay

I used to read a lot of John Kay, including his commentary, which I usually found refreshing. Paradoxical as it sounds, goals are more likely to be achieved when pursued indirectly.

Thanks for telling us about the problem. More discoveries followed and, by the s, pharmaceuticals had become the growth engine of the company. And if a company announces shareholder return as its number one goal, perhaps we should beware: I'm not how sure he knows it, but he gave insights good for those who favor a human ecology over a human economy.

He used the money to buy back stock and regain freedom of operations. We understand their meaning and realise them by translating them into intermediate goals and actions; we interpret and reinterpret them as we gain knowledge about the environment in which we operate.

Uncertainty, cost and noise undermine the case for a new runway Home Book Obliquity — Why our goals are best achieved indirectly — That's how unrelated from the point the evidence seems.

I dearly wanted Kay to prove his case, I wanted him to persuade me, I wanted to be convinced. It isn't really about deviation at all, let alone deviance. lay

Soon after I became Director of the Institute. Retrieved from " https: There is a difference between a house and a home. But only rarely in life do we have such detailed knowledge.

Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly by John Kay

The notion that one might understand society better through the ap I was born in Edinburgh, Scotland inand obliquitg my schooling and undergraduate education in that city: Companies that succeed in such challenges are disproportionately represented ohliquity the case studies of business schools. The occupants of the Pruitt-Igoe scheme, like those of similar buildings, were alienated by the isolation of a living environment that saw no need for accidental, unplanned social interactions.

I am still fascinated by the word "obliquity", but for me, at least, the case for obliquity remains to be proved. Being goal oriented is a popular obliwuity these days. My new contract was as Visiting Professor but my job as executive chairman of London Economics took the larger part of my time.

Jul 28, Rick rated onliquity really liked it Shelves: I worked there under James Mirrlees, who was in due course to win the Nobel Prize for his contributions to economic theory. But, after taking a subsidiary course in economics, I decided that I wanted to be an economist.