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Our goal is to help startup professionals take their English from intermediate to advanced in just 10 minutes a day. In each episode, we’ll talk about a topic related to the startup world, and we’ll learn some vocabulary that you can use to sound more natural in your day-to-day business interactions in English.
In this episode, we’re going to introduce you to a tool for solving problems and generating ideas called OBLIQUE STRATEGIES. In this case, oblique refers to coming at the problem from another angle or looking at the problem in a strange and unexpected way.
Oblique strategies are ways to approach problems when you get stuck.
People working on creative projects often use this tool to help them get unstuck – that means to find a solution to a problem.
You can use this strategy for a lot of problems you might face, in business or in your personal life. It’s something you can use while brainstorming during a project, or just when you encounter a problem.
In this lesson, we’ll teach you 9 Business English terms you need to know to talk about creativity in problem-solving.
A few words we’ll talk about are:
- oblique
- to generate ideas
- to get unstuck
Here’s the episode audio.
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To discover other oblique strategies, have a look at this website.
To read more about the concept of oblique strategies, have a look at the Wikipedia entry.
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