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The Empty Raincoat: Making Sense of the Future
Charles Handy
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Description for The Empty Raincoat: Making Sense of the Future
Paperback. Presents an alternative vision, where life and work are regrounded in a natural sense of continuity, connection and purposeful direction. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JFFR; KJU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 44. Weight in Grams: 212. 8vo. Clean copy
*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 and establish an alternative universe where the work ethics can contain a natural sense of continuity, connections and a sense of direction. We are now a world of shareholders, but everyone has a stake ... Read more
*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 and establish an alternative universe where the work ethics can contain a natural sense of continuity, connections and a sense of direction. We are now a world of shareholders, but everyone has a stake ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Random House Business
Condition
Used, Good
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099301257
SKU
KEX0262233
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Charles Handy
Charles Handy is a writer and broadcaster. His books, including The Empty Raincoat, have sold over one million copies around the world. He was named as Business Columnist of the Year in 1994. He has been, in his time, an oil executive, a business economist, a Professor at the London Business School, and Chairman of the Royal Society of Arts. ... Read more
Reviews for The Empty Raincoat: Making Sense of the Future
If you are part of, think about, care about or are in any way influenced by the world of work, and who is not, this powerful and moving book is for you
Sir Graham Day
Financial Times
A necessary and important contribution to our understanding of the way we live now
Hamish McRae
Director Magazine ... Read more
Sir Graham Day
Financial Times
A necessary and important contribution to our understanding of the way we live now
Hamish McRae
Director Magazine ... Read more