Some Oblique Strategies for a Strategic Planning Meeting
Abandon desireAbandon normal instructions
Accept advice
Always give yourself credit for having more than personality
Be extravagant
Be less critical more often
Call your mother and ask her what to do.
Change nothing and continue with immaculate consistency
Consider transitions
Decorate, decorate
Define an area as `safe' and use it as an anchor
Disciplined self-indulgence
Discover the recipes you are using and abandon them
Display your talent
Do nothing for as long as possible
Do the words need changing?
Get your neck massaged
Give way to your worst impulse
Go slowly all the way round the outside
How would you explain this to your parents?
Is it finished?
Look closely at the most embarrassing details and amplify.
Make it more sensual
Pay attention to distractions
Put in earplugs
Remember those quiet evenings
Short circuit (example; a man eating peas with the idea that they will improve his virility shovels them straight into his lap)
Tidy up
Use "unqualified" people.
Voice your suspicions
What is the simplest solution?
Where is the edge?
Which parts can be grouped?
Your mistake was a hidden intention


