A critical treatise which predicts life and business in the 1990s, this volume argues that in order to profit more from business in the late 20th century readers must overturn traditional ideas of education, career and management. It also conveys a vision of new discoveries and freedoms. Charles Handy also wrote "Gods of Management", "Taking Stock", "The Future of Work" and "Understanding Organisations".

The age of unreason

Business & Money

Handy, Charles B.

Biography & History

RANDOM HOUSE BUSINESS BOOKS

Organizations are a part of everyday life, whether in schools, hospitals, police stations or commercial companies. In this classics text, Charles Handy argues that the key to successful organizations lies in a better understanding of the needs and motivations of the people within them. "Understanding Organizations" offers an extended 'dictionary' of the key concepts - culture, motivations, leadership, role-playing, co-ordinating and consultation - and then shows how this 'language' can help us find new solutions to familiar problems. Few management writers have been as consistently challenging and influential as Charles Handy. Firmly established as one of the core business texts, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in organizations and how to make them work better.

Understanding Organizations

Penguin??Books

In a new introduction to his classic text, Charles Handy demonstrates how the key concepts of culture, motivation, leadership, power, role-playing, and group-working remain as important today as when the book was first published. "Organizations are not objects. They are micro-societies." This core business text gives students and professionals the tools to analyze and improve these "micro-societies."

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cooking Education & Reference

Penguin Global

Understanding Schools as Organizations

Politics & Social Sciences

Aitken, Robert

Social Sciences

Management & Leadership

Seven basic concepts are applied to specific types of organizational problems, and pertinent theoretical literature and source material are surveyed. Bibliogs

Understanding Organizations (PENGUIN EDUCATION)

Gods of Management: The Changing Work of Organizations

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Pan.

Using his personal experiences, the author offers advice to anyone working within an organization such as a business, school or even a family. He provides practical suggestions and simple exercises on, among other things, getting the best out of oneself and other people, recognizing individuals' varying personalities, needs and ambitions, controlling stress, identifying different types of organization, the pressures on people to conform and motivation. Also included is the author's theory on the "inside-out doughnut". The book is aimed at anyone involved in relationships with people, whether on a business or social basis, especially those who have formal responsibility for others at all levels of business.

Inside Organizations: 21 Ideas for Managers

Processes & Infrastructure

Bbc Pubns

One of the world's most influential living management thinkers, Charles Handy has year-after-year been listed alongside business gurus including Peter Drucker and Tom Peters in the prestigious Thinkers 50 list. His views on management -- and life -- have inspired and enlightened others for decades. Now, in Myself and Other More Important Matters, the bestselling author of books including The Age of Unreason shares his special brand of wisdom, giving readers uncommon insight into business and careers...as well as the choices we all have to make in our lives. 
Handy draws on the lessons of his own experience to help readers move beyond the facts they learned in business school and reflect on their own individual management style. With the "philosophical elegance and eloquence" Warren Bennis has described as his trademark, Handy discusses how one should develop one’s career goals in line with personal values and sense of ethics. Handy entertainingly recounts what he’s discovered along his own international journey: from lessons his father taught him growing up in Ireland…to what he learned in Borneo in his days working for Royal Dutch Shell… to Italy, where he bought and fixed up an old house in Tuscany…all the way to America, where recent corporate scandals have shaken our understanding of what is ethical and acceptable. 
Throughout the book, Handy asks us to look at the role of work in our life, and what we truly find fulfilling. It is hard to imagine a better or wiser guide to work -- and life’s -- big questions.

Myself and Other More Important Matters

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Amacom Books

Gods Of Management

Profile Books

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