The Age of Unreason - Couverture rigide

Handy, Charles

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0091740886 ISBN 13 : 9780091740887

Editeur : Random House Business Books, 1989

Synopsis

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".

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

If you put a frog in cold water and slowly heat it, the frog will eventually let itself be boiled to death. We, too, will not survive if we don't respond to the radical way in which the world is changing. From now on, success and happiness will depend on an understanding of the boiled frog, and other concepts described in this bestselling book:
-Upside-Down Thinking
-Personal Re-Framing
-Telecommuting
-The Electric Shamrock
-The Triple I Organization
-The Inverted Doughnut
-Horizontal Fast-Tracking
-Portfolio Marriages

In The Age of Unreason Britain's foremost business guru provides an inspiring vision of an era of new discoveries, new enlightenment and new freedoms. It is a book to turn your understanding of the world on its head.

Biographie de l'auteur

Charles Handy is an independent writer, broadcaster and teacher. He has been an oil executive, an economist, a professor at the London Business School, the Warden of St. George's House in Windsor Castle and the chairman of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce. He was born in Co. Kildare in Ireland, the son of an archdeacon, and educated in Ireland, England (Oxford University) and the USA (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). His many books include The Empty Raincoat, Understanding Organizations, Gods of Management, The Future of Work and Waiting for the Mountain to Move. He and his wife Elizabeth live in London and Norfolk.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Random House Business Books
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0091740886
• ISBN 13: 9780091740887
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible