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    Obliquity : why our goals are best achieved indirectly / John Kay.
    by Kay, J. A. (John Anderson)
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    New York, N.Y. : Penguin Press, 2011.
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    9781594202780 :
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    228 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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    1st American ed.
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    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.
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