{"id":1841,"date":"2010-06-28T07:56:51","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T06:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/progmanager.wordpress.com\/?p=958"},"modified":"2010-06-28T07:56:51","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T06:56:51","slug":"obliquity-why-our-goals-are-best-achieved-indirectly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2010\/06\/28\/obliquity-why-our-goals-are-best-achieved-indirectly\/","title":{"rendered":"Obliquity &#8211; Why Our Goals are Best Achieved Indirectly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D9eobU_A0ME]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In business as in science, it seems that you are often most successful in achieving something when you are trying to do something else. I think of it as the principle of \u2018obliquity\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>James Black<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Management and the Start Up\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/02\/09\/management-and-the-start-up\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Management and the Start Up<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Are we learning? Or just looking good?\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/02\/09\/are-we-learning-or-just-looking-good\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Are we learning? Or just looking good?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Jack Welch on What Leaders Do\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/02\/09\/jack-welch-on-what-leaders-do\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Jack Welch on What Leaders Do<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Ayn Rand\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/02\/09\/ayn-rand\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Ayn Rand<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Jonathan Meades on Brand and Regeneration\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2011\/12\/28\/jonathan-meades-on-brand-and-regeneration\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Jonathan Meades on Brand and Regeneration<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D9eobU_A0ME] In business as in science, it seems that you are often most successful in achieving something when you are trying to do something else. I think of it as the principle of \u2018obliquity\u2019. James Black Would Social Enterprise Deliver a Better World? First as Tragedy: Then as Farce &#8211; Zizek on the Economy What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[42,214],"class_list":["post-1841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-culture","tag-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}