Age of Unreason

Business & Money

Handy, Charles

Management & Leadership

Harvard Business School Press

The Age of Unreason

Harvard Business Review Press

Empty, Raincoat

RANDOM HOUSE UK

This is a radical synthesis of Charles Handy's philosophy of organizations and the individual in a dramatically changing social, business and political environment. In his characteristically personal anecdotal style, Handy describes why he believes materialist capitalism is self-limiting, efficiency may be the enemy of a cohesive society, and religion and science hold only false certainties. He then builds a new theory of meaning, based on the search for identity, the role of the arts and the idea of immortality. Unconventional organization is his model - for business and the individual - requiring new learning systems for a better future.

The Hungry Spirit

A fascinating and inspirational investigation into the creative and entrepreneurial process. What drives some people to create something from nothing? Is it ambition, the need for self-fulfillment? Is it about money, power, or even genes? Or, is there a mood of the time that encourages people, and can anyone do it? The world needs new ideas, new products, new kinds of associations and institutions, new initiatives, art and designs. But these new things seldom come from established organizations. They come from individuals — Charles Handy calls them the New Alchemists, and he has talked to a range of extraordinary people — from Trevor Baylis and Richard Branson to Jane Tewson and Terence Conran — to hear from them the secret to turning basic ideas into creative gold. Elizabeth Handy has used her new style of composite portraits to highlight aspects of all the different alchemists in their particular environments. From the Trade Paperback edition.

The New Alchemists

Handy, Elizabeth

Economics

Hutchinson

Myself and Other More Important Matters

The author of The Age of Unreason, The Empty Raincoat, and The Elephant and the Flea, shares more of his best-selling brand of wisdom concerning the big choices in life. In Charles Handy’s most ambitious book yet, the well-known business guru draws on the lessons of his own life to help us map out the main stages of our lives, and shows us how to navigate through the tough decisions we have to make at every phase. He gives us his personal thoughts on life’s big questions and turning points, mining his own experience to tell us what he’s learned along the way. From lessons his father taught him at the Vicarage in Kildare where he grew up, to what he learned in Borneo in his days working for Royal Dutch Shell, and later, in America where corporate scandals have shaken our understanding of what is ethical and what is acceptable in business, and finally in Italy, where on a whim he decided to buy and fix up an old house in Tuscany. Throughout the book, he asks us to look at what we value — is it money? Family? Time? What is the role of work in our life? What do we find fulfilling? As our working lives blend ever more into the rest of who we are, Charles Handy has emerged as an invaluable social thinker. It is hard to imagine a better or wiser guide to life’s big questions.

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Arrow

The Age of Unreason: New Thinking For A New World [paperback] Charles Handy [Jan 01, 2002]

AGE OF UNREASON, THE

Random House of Canada, Limited

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Religion & Spirituality

Biography & History

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