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Obliquity : why our goals are best achieved indirectly
Kay, J. A.
Adult Nonfiction 153.8 K 2011
Kay, J. A.
Adult Nonfiction 153.8 K 2011
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| Contents | Page |
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| Preface | p. 1 |
| Chapter 1 - Obliquity-Why Our Objectives Are Often Best Pursued Indirectly | p. 5 |
| Part 1 - The Oblique World: How Obliquity Surrounds Us | |
| Chapter 2 - Fulfillment-How the Happiest People Do Not Pursue Happiness | p. 17 |
| Chapter 3 - THe Profit-Seeking Paradox-How the Most Profitable Companies Are Not the Most Profit Oriented | p. 24 |
| Chapter 4 - The Art of the Deal-How the Wealthiest People Are Not the Most Materialistic | p. 35 |
| Chapter 5 - Objectives, Goals and Actions-How the Means Help Us Discover the End | p. 46 |
| Chapter 6 - The Ubiquity of ObliquitY-How Obliquity Is Relevant to Many Aspects of Our Lives | p. 53 |
| Part 2 - The Need for Obliquity: Why We Often Can't Solve Problems Directly | |
| Chapter 7 - Muddling Through-Why Oblique Approaches Succeed | p. 67 |
| Chapter 8 - Pluralism-Why There Is Usually More Than One Answer to a Problem | p. 77 |
| Chapter 9 - Interaction-Why the Outcome of What We Do Depends on How We Do It | p. 90 |
| Chapter 10 - Complexity-How the World Is Too Complex for Directness to Be Direct | p. 99 |
| Chapter 11 - Incompleteness-How We Rarely Know Enough About the Nature of Our Problems | p. 109 |
| Chapter 12 - Abstraction-Why Models Are Imperfect Descriptions of Reality | p. 116 |
| Part 3 - Coping with Obliquity: How to Solve Problems in a Complex World | |
| Chapter 13 - The Flickering Lamp of History-How We Mistakenly Infer Design from Outcome | p. 129 |
| Chapter 14 - The Stockdale Paradox-How We Have Less Freedom of Choice Than We Think | p. 139 |
| Chapter 15 - The Hedgehog and the Fox-How Good Decision Makers Recognize the Limits of Their Knowledge | p. 144 |
| Chapter 16 - The Blind Watchmaker-How Adaptation Is Smarter Than We Are | p. 152 |
| Chapter 17 - Bend It Like Beckham-How We Know More Than We Can Tell | p. 158 |
| Chapter 18 - Order Without Design-How Complex Outcomes Are Achieved Without Knowledge of an Overall Purpose | p. 165 |
| Chapter 19 - Very Well Then, I Contradict Myself-How It Is More Important to Be Right Than to Be Consistent | p. 172 |
| Chapter 20 - Dodgy Dossiers-How Spurious Rationality Is Often Confused with Good Decision Making | p. 179 |
| Conclusions | |
| Chapter 21 - The Practice of Obliquity-The Advantages of Oblique Decision Making | p. 187 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 197 |
| Notes | p. 199 |
| Bibliography | p. 209 |
| Index | p. 219 |
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