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Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly John Kay
Publisher: Viking Penguin

Mar 6, 2014 - John Kay - Obliquity: Why our goals are best achieved indirectly. Of course in this case I would dedicate few hours to learn photography-related terms such as focus, aperture, and light before attending the course in order to maximise my understanding. I think of it as the principle of 'obliquity'. For some time he's been thinking about a concept he calls "obliquity," which is the subject of a forthcoming book, Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly. Jun 28, 2010 - In business as in science, it seems that you are often most successful in achieving something when you are trying to do something else. Photo by bartb_pt a photography course in German. Similarly, I think that we can often learn Learning a language while learning something else: the obliquity method to learn languages. Jul 29, 2011 - I am currently reading a terrific book by John Kay, Obliquity—Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly. The book is divided into three parts the first part makes us realize the existence of obliquity in the world around us. John Kay, founding Director of the Said Business School, Oxford University, and writer, most recently Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly; Rachel Lomax, Former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England. Mar 26, 2011 - In a recently published book Author John Kay argues that goals are often best achieved indirectly. Mar 3, 2010 - John Kay may be my favorite business writer. Apr 24, 2010 - Just got my hands on John Kay's latest book: Obliquity: Why our goals are best achieved indirectly. Apr 13, 2011 - John Kay, a leading economist and author of 'Obliquity', talks about why our goals are best achieved indirectly. Jan 26, 2011 - The central theme of the book is “Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly”. Apr 21, 2011 - An interesting read, and to paraphrase his opening statements, in many spheres of life, from business to politics, sport to science, our goals are best achieved when we approach them indirectly. "Obliquity is the idea that when we are pursuing very complex objectives, we very often approaches these objective indirectly, obliquely," Kay comments.