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“charles handy”

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  • The View from Ninety

    Reflections on How to Live a Long, Contented Life

    by Charles Handy ...
    FROM THE BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF THE EMPTY RAINCOAT AND UNDERSTANDING ORGANISATIONS.One of the major thinkers of our times reflects on how to live richer, more contented lives, drawing on wisdom built up over a lifetime***A Financial Times Best Business Book of 2025***Over a span of seven decades, Charles Handy was, variously, a businessman, a writer, a philanthropist and a philosopher. Not... ... Read more

    Was $17.99 CAD Now $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Age Of Unreason

    by Charles Handy ...
    We will not survive unless we adapt to the way the world is changing. The Age of Unreason is 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' competitive realities in the world of work and of leisure. It is a book to turn your understanding of the world on ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Second Curve

    Thoughts on Reinventing Society

    by Charles Handy ...
    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 ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Myself and Other More Important Matters

    by Charles Handy ...
    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 he leaves the management territory he has so effectively and influentially mapped in the past ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Empty Raincoat

    Making Sense of the Future

    by Charles Handy ...
    *Can you find the way to Davy's bar? *Do you know the Doughnut principal? *How do you make a Chinese contract? The changes which Charles Handy foresaw in THE AGE OF UNREASON are happening. Endless growth can make a candyfloss economy, and capitalism must be its own sternest critic. Handy reaches here for a philosophy beyond the mechanics of business organisations, beyond material choices, to try ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Understanding Organizations

    by Charles Handy ...
    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, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Elephant And The Flea

    by Charles Handy ...
    Bookseller Charles Handy's best-selling new book looks at how individuals (the fleas in his analogy) relate to multi-national conglomerates (the elephants). In addition to addressing how and why we work today, he covers a wide range of preoccupations and issues including the increasing fear of big business: 'it is easy to see why many observers think that the big corporations are now both richer ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • 21 Letters on Life and Its Challenges

    by Charles Handy ...
    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 society.In his new book, Handy builds on a life's work to glimpse into the future and see what ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The New Philanthropists

    by Charles Handy ...
    Who are the new philanthropists? And how is their philanthropy 'new'?In this remarkable and inspiring book, the eminent management writer Charles Handy and his wife Elizabeth, a portrait photographer, have collaborated to portray a new generation of practical philanthropists, men and women who have made their own fortunes and decided to move on from financial success to try to help those in need. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Thoughts For The Day

    by Charles Handy ...
    Charles Handy may well be Britain's only world-class management guru (Director Magazine) but his thoughts about organisations and the role of the individual involve thoughts beyond pay and display. For five years, Handy delivered a series of Thoughts for the Radio 4 Today Programme which addressed spiritual issues. These were collected in a volume called Waiting for the Mountain to Move, ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Reinvented Lives

    Women at Sixty: A Celebration

    by Charles Handy, Elizabeth Handy ...
    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. This generation of women is entering the sixties more healthy, more educated and more energetic than most of their mothers. The subjects in this book provide the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Hungry Spirit

    New Thinking for a New World

    by Charles Handy ...
    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. Offering a carefully considered and compelling alternative vision, the book challenges the status quo on everything from capitalism and organization to goal ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD