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21 Letters on Life and Its Challenges by Charles Handy
Category: Business, Economics and Law
Charles Handy is one of the giants of contemporary thought. His books on management - including Understanding Organizations and Gods of Management - have changed the way we view business. His work on broader issues and trends - such as Beyond Certainty and The Second Curve - has changed the way we view ...Show more
BEYOND CERTAINTY by CHARLES HANDY
Category: Business Finance Management | Series: Arrow Business Books
Gods of Management : Changing Work of Organisations 3rd Ed by Charles B. Handy
Category: Business, Economics and Law
A witty allegory of the four types of organisation: the club culture, ruled over by Zeus; the role culture, whose patron saint is Apollo; the task culture, owing allegiance to Athena; and the existential culture, whose people come under the orbit of Dionysus. This work is for the survivors in a world of ...Show more
Gods of Management - The Changing Work of Organisations by Charles B. Handy
Category: Business
The essential handbook for understanding management styles and finding your own.
Myself and Other More Important Matters by Charles B. Handy
Category: Business Finance Management
Charles Handy is perhaps best known outside the business world as a wise and warm presenter of Radio 4's 'Thought for the Day'. Long recognised as one of the world's leading business thinkers (over a million copies of his books have been sold around the world), in MYSELF AND OTHER MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS ...Show more
Myself and Other More Important Matters by Charles B. Handy
Category: Biography Memoir
Charles Handy is perhaps best known outside the business world as a wise and warm presenter of Radio 4's Thought for the Day. Long recognised as one of the world's leading business thinkers (over a million copies of his books have been sold around the world), in Myself and Other Important Matters he l ...Show more
Rethinking the Future - Rethinking Business, Principles, Competition, Control and Complexity, Leadership, Markets and the World by Rowan Gibson; Alvin Toffler (Foreword by); Heidi Toffler (Foreword by); Stephen Covey (Contribution by); Charles Handy; Michael Porter (Contribution by); C. K. Prahalad (Contribution by)
Category: Fiction
This volume provides insights from business thinkers on their visions of tomorrow. Powerful new forces are reshaping the world today. Traditional boundaries between industries and disciplines are rapidly blurring, and the old rules of management no longer make sense in a post-industrial world. This ...Show more
The Age of Unreason by HANDY, Charles
Category: Business
We will not survive unless we adapt to the way the world is changing. THE AGE OF UNREASON ia an inspiring vision of an era of new discoveries, new enlightenment and new freedoms. It helps us to understand what Tom Peters, the American business guru, has called the new 'upside down' competive realities i ...Show more
The Elephant and the Flea by Charles B. Handy
Category: Business
This text looks at how individuals (the fleas in Charles Handy's analogy) relate to multi-national conglomerates (the elephants). In addition to addressing how and why we work, it covers a wide range of preoccupations and issues including the fear of big business. Paperback (B-Format)
The Empty Raincoat by Charles B. Handy
Category: Business, Economics and Law
In this extraordinary, life-affirming book, Charles Handy reaches for a philosophy beyond the impersonal mechanics of business organisations, and beyond material choices. He presents a powerful alternative vision, where life and work are re-grounded in a natural sense of continuity, connection and purpo ...Show more
The Hungry Spirit by Charles B. Handy
Category: Business Finance Management
With his characteristically very personal anecdotal style, Charles Handy analyses how materialistic capitalism is self-limiting, how efficiency may be the enemy of a cohesive society, and examines the false certainties of science and religion. He then builds a new theory of meaning, based on the researc ...Show more