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The Elephant and the Flea: Looking Backwards to the Future
Charles Handy
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Description for The Elephant and the Flea: Looking Backwards to the Future
Paperback. Fleas need elephants, just as elephants need fleas to keep them alert and dancing. This idea also applies to economies who need both, to business, which has to structure itself to allow fleas to co-exist with the elephants, to society, which needs to encourage individualism but needs the conformity of the elephant. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFFR; KJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 174.
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 and more powerful than many nation states. They worry that these new corporate states are accountable to no-one - that their financial clout makes governments beholden to them ... The elephants, people feel, are out of control.'
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Random House Business
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099415657
SKU
V9780099415657
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Charles Handy
Charles Handy was a writer, broadcaster and teacher, as well as a former 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, Manufactures 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, Gods of Management, The Second Curve and 21 Letters.
Reviews for The Elephant and the Flea: Looking Backwards to the Future
He makes difficult stuff seem easy
Management Today
'In this very readable book Handy makes you think more about the impact of these diverse changes on the whole world of human endeavour, not just the world of work.
Human Resources Magazine
You will find yourself constantly returning to the book and quoting extracts to collegues...This latest offering is a joy to read. It is one of those rare things, a book by a management author that you want to devour at one sitting.
Ambassdor
This is an ambitious treatment of the future of everything.
Canary
It is classic Handy...It is entertaining, thought provoking, humanistic and wise in equal measures.
FMX
This latest offering is a joy to read. It is one of those rare things, a book by a management author that you want to devour at one sitting.
Ambassador
Handy has that rare gift among business writers - able to talk sense and leave out the jargon - This title will appeal to a very wide audience, because it is everything a business book should be - very readable and thought provoking.
Business and Computer
Management Today
'In this very readable book Handy makes you think more about the impact of these diverse changes on the whole world of human endeavour, not just the world of work.
Human Resources Magazine
You will find yourself constantly returning to the book and quoting extracts to collegues...This latest offering is a joy to read. It is one of those rare things, a book by a management author that you want to devour at one sitting.
Ambassdor
This is an ambitious treatment of the future of everything.
Canary
It is classic Handy...It is entertaining, thought provoking, humanistic and wise in equal measures.
FMX
This latest offering is a joy to read. It is one of those rare things, a book by a management author that you want to devour at one sitting.
Ambassador
Handy has that rare gift among business writers - able to talk sense and leave out the jargon - This title will appeal to a very wide audience, because it is everything a business book should be - very readable and thought provoking.
Business and Computer