| Title : | The age of unreason : Thinking the unlikely and doing the unreasonable | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Charles B. Handy, Author | | Edition statement: | 2nd Edition Reprint | | Publisher: | London : Arrow Books | | Publication Date: | 1991 | | Pagination: | ix, 217 p. | | Size: | 20 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-09-954831-7 | | Class number: | 302.3 | | Abstract: | If you put a frog in water and slowly heat it, the frog will eventually let itself be boiled to death. We, too, will not survive unless we actively respond to the radical way our world is changing.
'Graham Greene once wrote that "there always comes a moment in time when a door opens and lets the futures in". That's what Charles Handy has done for all of us - opened that adventurous door' Warren Bennis from the Foreword.
'I was mesmerised by Charles Handy's book. His lucid, exciting, shocking descriptions of tomorrow's organisations thrust us one giant step closer to understanding the new "upside-down" competitive realities' Tom Peters. | | Contents note: | Acknowledgements
Part One: Changing
Chapter 1 The Argument; Chapter 2 The Numbers; Chapter 3 The Theory
Part Two: Working
Introduction; Chapter 4 The Shamrock Organization; Chapter 5 The Federal Organization; Chapter 6 The Triple I Organization
Part Three: Living
Introduction; Chapter 7 Portfolios; Chapter 8 Re-inventing Education; Chapter 9 An Upside-Down Society
Epilogue; For Reading and Reference; Index. |
The age of unreason : Thinking the unlikely and doing the unreasonable [printed text] / Charles B. Handy, Author . - 2nd Edition Reprint . - London : Arrow Books, 1991 . - ix, 217 p. ; 20 cm. ISBN : 978-0-09-954831-7 | Class number: | 302.3 | | Abstract: | If you put a frog in water and slowly heat it, the frog will eventually let itself be boiled to death. We, too, will not survive unless we actively respond to the radical way our world is changing.
'Graham Greene once wrote that "there always comes a moment in time when a door opens and lets the futures in". That's what Charles Handy has done for all of us - opened that adventurous door' Warren Bennis from the Foreword.
'I was mesmerised by Charles Handy's book. His lucid, exciting, shocking descriptions of tomorrow's organisations thrust us one giant step closer to understanding the new "upside-down" competitive realities' Tom Peters. | | Contents note: | Acknowledgements
Part One: Changing
Chapter 1 The Argument; Chapter 2 The Numbers; Chapter 3 The Theory
Part Two: Working
Introduction; Chapter 4 The Shamrock Organization; Chapter 5 The Federal Organization; Chapter 6 The Triple I Organization
Part Three: Living
Introduction; Chapter 7 Portfolios; Chapter 8 Re-inventing Education; Chapter 9 An Upside-Down Society
Epilogue; For Reading and Reference; Index. |
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