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050	1	4	_aBF637.S8 _bK23 2011
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100	1		_aKay, J. A. _q(John Anderson)
245	1	0	_aObliquity : _bwhy our goals are best achieved indirectly / _cJohn Kay.
260			_aNew York : _bPenguin Press, _c2011.
300			_a217 p. : _bill., map ; _c22 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [209]-217) and index.
505			_aObliquity -- 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.
520			_aDraws 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.
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650		0	_aSuccess.
650		0	_aGoal (Psychology)
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