OBLIQUITY

Obliquity: Why our goals achieved the best indirectly?

“Obliquity is the principle that complex goals are best achieved indirectly.”

I would like to start with one phrase everyone in Russia hears from their childhood (probably in Albania or Turkey it is the same? Dear Classmates, please advice): A smart (wise?) person won’t climb the mountain; a smart (wise?) person will go around the mountain.

One of my friends told that it is too hard and that why it is probably a bad idea…

I don’t know why do we prefer indirect roads. Based on my experience, while looking for workaround solutions, we never choose any easy way. For me it is just too simple. But I hope to understand this tendency better when I will read the second part of “Obliquity” book, why such complexity is necessary to reach our goals.

To sum up, I would like to thank everybody:

Dear Professor, thank you very much for advising us such useful non-fiction books. I could almost never find before any interesting business book (maybe, because of indirect way or because there are only 5% of them), but reviewing the books from the lessons (and other books from their authors) most of them I found not only helpful, but I am enjoying and delighting while reading them.

Dear Classmates, thank you for sharing your opinions and a good team work we achieved while preparing our Team Development Presentation. I wish you success and luck in today’s examination!

Have a nice day,
Tatiana