Living Without a Goal
A Language, Philosophy, Writing book. Found nothing of interest in this rambling, disjointed book.
In what may be the most radical business book ever published, philosopher Jay Ogilvy shows that living without a goal is the only way to accomplish anything. In the 1980s we ran our lives with all the direction and confidence filofaxes and to-do lists could provide. Always knowing exactly where we were headed, we climbed toward the goals corporate America held out in front of us like so many carrots: higher salaries, better titles, more impressive offices. But after a decade of climbing, the air is getting thin. We crave the chance to create, to express ourselves, and to make a difference, not just a living. It is time, says businessman/philosopher James Ogilvy, to tear up the to-do lists and grant ourselves the freedom to enjoy what E. M. Forster calls "the lights and shades that exist in the greyest conversation." Ogilvy...
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- Pages: 201 pages
- ISBN: 9780385417990 / 385417993
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A few pages into this book, it becomes clear that Ogilvy had one goal: to sell books to schmucks who can't formulate positive, workable goals for their lives.A good friend had tried to read this book, and he passed it on to me to find out whether I could find anything of genuine interest in it. I failed in that goal. Perhaps I shouldn't... Found nothing of interest in this rambling, disjointed book. goal-burdened goalies who need better goals... or none at all
