TEDxWarwick - John Kay - Obliquity: How Complex Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly

[@mmendi1114]

A gem among the TED Talks I have watched... an absolute gem...Thank you, Prof. Kay, and I actually do like the mannerism of your presentation it's different among all the high energy-loud extrovert types of presenters we usually watch

[@scrumpymanjack]

If you step back, I think this is all about doing something well. If you are a drugs company, make the best drugs you possibly can. If you are a plumber, do your job as well as you can. In both cases, your fundamental objective may be to become rich, but if you do your job better than other people or companies, you will become rich in the process of doing your job well.

[@feraudyh]

One of the best TED talks.

[@artandculture5262]

Found him in McGilchrist’s The Matter with Things. 🎉

[@benjaminwiner6220]

1:45 I didn’t realize the DSM 5 is floating in space. This makes sense.

[@TheJakub62]

Interesting idea which I quite believe in. However, what I miss here is more evidence or more factual information. I am too lazy but if I made a research I would surely find a lot of examples of companies that apply direct visions and yet, they are successful. After all, if businesses were pure and they're main purpose was really to serve people and do things by heart the shareholders would cut off as much of their profits as possible to reinvest it (I think Amazon has been actually doing this a lot as they were making consecutive losses for several years but the company's value was skyrocketing). But as I said I do believe in the idea. If you ask successful people on their key to success they ususally answer that they have just been committed to what they loved. And the same it is with businesses.

[@gpk6458]

In software we call obliquity "agile" development.

[@feraudyh]

Really??

[@martinsatyen7833]

play @ 1.25 or 1.5 speed !

[@MywishAnand]

Obliquity of watching slow videos. Great!

[@nonchalantd]

great speech

[@scrumpymanjack]

Great lecture - though, in the interests of accuracy, it's not "less than 500 yards to walk" from Paddington to Lancaster Gate.

[@TompeThomasH]

Interesting and important, you cannot make a sane detailed plan towards a highly complex goal.

[@patriciaoffer9585]

I must be more oblique. A neighbor/ex-boss might be abusing his dog....... and I keep screwing it up. "I want to see Rexy!!!" The neighbor's being distant.

[@saileshkarki1858]

i cud relate dis to sumthing steve jobs said , " You can join the dots only looking back in life "

[@matthewmoran3041]

Brilliant.

[@spab87]

How come this presentation made it to TED???

[@BANKO007]

Interesting observations but exactly how do you use obliquity?

[@TompeThomasH]

I like the ideas of Mike Dooley - follow your vision but don't go for the cursed HOW's - you cannot make detailed goals towards a complex vision.

[@FarmerFitness]

2x speed with captions FTW

[@MywishAnand]

Obliquity of watching slow videos. Great!

[@stephenhepworth3113]

sorry, i tried, i really did. Dont drink coffee while you are watching this, your head will explode.

[@dazedunfazed1022]

Только самые любознательные книжные черви дошли до этого видео

[@edwarddflint]

anecdotal, monotonal rambling. interesting observation but not very illustrative when you get rid of the buzz words and generalities