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A lecture by Melih Arat [email protected] Obliquity Why our goals achieved best indirecty John Kay

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Obliquity a book by John KayMelih Arat master's class presentation.

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Page 1: Obliquity

A lecture by Melih [email protected]

ObliquityWhy our goals achieved best indirecty

John Kay

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Obliquity

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Happiness is not achieved through the pursuit of happiness

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The Phases of Happiness 1. Phase: Momentary

Feeling I am cutting this stone

to shape. 2. Phase: State of

Mind I am building a school.

3. Phase: Fullfilling potential I am working for the

glory of humanity.

Don’t catch 100 fishes; go fishing.

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The most profitable businesses are not the most profit oriented.

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Meninas Picasso

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The greatest paintings are not the most accurate representations of their subjects.

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Soviet Planners managed the economy far less successfully than the adaptive, disorganized processes of market economies.

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Our objectives are spesific.

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The consequences of our actions depend on the responses of other people, and they interact.

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We deal with complex systems whose structure we can understand only imperfectly.

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In obliquity there are no predictable connections between intentions and outcomes

Caterpillars and butterflies

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Oblique problem solvers do not evaluate all available alternatives.They make successive choices from a narrow range of options.

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Good decision makers are eclectic and tend to regard consistency as a mark of stubbornness, or ideological blindness, rather than a virtue.

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The most complex systems come into being, and function, without anyone having knowledge of the whole.

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