Britain's leading guru looks to the future. 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 - has changed the way we view society. In the second curve, handy builds on a life's work to glimpse into the future and see what challenges and opportunities lie ahead. He looks at current trends in capitalism and asks whether it is a sustainable system. He explores the dangers of a society built on credit. He challenges the myth that remorseless growth is essential. He even asks whether we should rethink our roles in life - as students, parents, workers and voters - and what the aims of an ideal society of the future should be. Provocative and thoughtful as ever, he sets out the questions we all need to ask ourselves - and points us in the direction of some of the answers.

Product Description: "In grundlegenden Essays analysiert der Professor für Managementpsychologie mit scharfem Blick die geistige wie wirtschaftliche Situation der westlichen Gesellschaft an der Schwelle zur Jahrtausendwende." Welt am Sonntag

Product Description: Charles Handy zählt zur Handvoll weltweit bakannter Vordenker der Geschäftswelt. Handys Buch ist eine Fundgrube für herausfordernde Gedanken." Die Zeit

Product Description: The authors identify three stages of leadership development:early ingredients for success starting from childhood;paths that current and aspiring leaders should follow once they start a career; and what leaders should doexceptionally well to become and remain outstanding in organizations operating in multicultural environments...read more

Who are the new philanthropists? And how is their philanthropy 'new'? This book portrays a new generation of practical philanthropists, men and women who help actively, working on the spot with the very people who need their aid, ensuring that the initiatives are sustainable in the longer term.

From his childhood in an Irish vicarage, to Oxford University, to his first job as an oil executive with Royal Dutch/Shell in the Far East, to a professorship at the London Business School, to chairmanship of the Royal Society of Arts, and finally to his current status as an eminent social philosopher and international business guru, Charles Handy has viewed the business and economic workings of the twentieth century inside and out. Now, in the twenty-first century, Handy provides a firsthand account of how we got here and where we are headed. The Elephant and the Flea is a fitting capstone to Handy's brilliant career and colorful life. In a tone that is at once learned, genial, witty, and wise, Handy takes us on his life's journey, looking back to such topics as his childhood and education and how they prepared (or, rather, did not prepare) him for a career in business; the changing nature of organizational life within the context of the old economy and the new; the great variety of capitalism around the world; and, through it all, his struggle to find meaning and fulfillment in work. Handy uses the quirky, powerful metaphor of the elephant and the flea to describe and critique the great shift from the prevalence of behemoth, slow-moving, bureaucratic organizations that provided a lifetime of security and not much freedom or room for creativity, to a world in which we are much more independent and flea-like, flitting from job to job, latching onto elephants when we need to, but mostly flying solo and without safe havens. This book is both a poignant personal memoir and a deep reflection on the past and future of world capitalism, with all its possibilities and pitfalls. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Twenty-eight women, ranging from Anita Roddick and Prue Leith to less well-known names, write their own personal stories which are accompanied by Elizabeth Handy’s black and white photographs and an introductory essay by Charles Handy...read more

Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Celebrated the world over for his gentle wit and keen insight into human behavior, Charles Handy is widely regarded as one of today's best social and business philosophers. This latest collection of Handy's work groups twenty-one of the revered BBC commentator's best essays on why organizations and the people in them behave the way they do...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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

Product Description: An introduction to the techniques of organizational theory within specific voluntary organizations. The author has first-hand experience of these kinds of organizations and has also written Understanding Organizations. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An influential business philosopher and best-selling author offers a series of evocative essays that examine the relationship between belief and action in the workplace and at home. 30,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Identifies the spiritual costs of the Western world's unending quest for affluence and challenges organizations and individuals to seek a higher goal

Looks at how changes in technology, work patterns, and social institutions will affect our lives, and argues that change is now less predictable (view table of contents)

A collection of essays on the changing organizational environment addresses the need for more flexibility in management and more freedom for employees to work creatively

Product Description: What would the world of business be like if it were run by the Greek gods of yore? Would Apollo be the right man at the helm of Acme Widget? What sweeping changes would Athena make if she controlled an ad agency? While this might merely seem like an entertaining concept, it also happens to bean extremely valuable framework for understanding management styles and the corporate cultures associated with them...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Discusses how new developments in technology, global economies, and the pursuit of efficiency have altered organizations, careers, and lifestyles, and argues for the need for a new ethic based on shared power and greater autonomy (view table of contents)

Examines the place of work in society and discusses the possible future development of employment in Great Britain

Examines the place of work in society and discusses the possible future development of employment in Great Britain