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The Elephant and the Flea: Looking Backwards to the Future
Charles Handy
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Hardcover. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear. Dust wrapper has some minor edge wear but remains very good
'We are faced with a tug-of-war between our desire for a separate identity and our need for combination. We want to be ourselves, but, to survive in a bigger world, we also need to be part of something bigger. Fleas need elephants, just as elephants need fleas to keep them alert and dancing. 'This applies to my own life story, as I found elephants too imprisoning to my eventual freedom as a flea. But the 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, to education, to religion, to marriage and other relationships, and to all people seeking to structure their lives.'
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Hutchinson
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780091793630
SKU
KKD0002049
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Charles Handy
Charles Handy is a writer and broadcaster, known to many for his 'Thoughts for Today' on the BBC's Today programme. He was named as Business Columnist of the Year in 1994 for some of his pieces in The Empty Raincoat. His books, including The Empty Raincoat, have sold over one million copies around the world. 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. He and his wife Elizabeth, a portrait photographer, live in London, Norfolk and Tuscany.
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