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 its head.
Vorwort
Thinking the unlikely and doing the unreasonable - Charles Handy presents his vision of changing relations in the spheres of commerce and the workplace, providing original and thought-provoking advice to the employee and the employer.
Autorentext
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.
Klappentext
If you put a frog in cold water and slowly heat it, the frog will eventually let itself be boiled to death. We, too, will not survive if we don't respond to the radical way in which the world is changing. From now on, success and happiness will depend on an understanding of the boiled frog, and other concepts described in this bestselling book:
-Upside-Down Thinking
-Personal Re-Framing
-Telecommuting
-The Electric Shamrock
-The Triple I Organization
-The Inverted Doughnut
-Horizontal Fast-Tracking
-Portfolio Marriages
In The Age of Unreason Britain's foremost business guru provides an inspiring vision of an era of new discoveries, new enlightenment and new freedoms. It is a book to turn your understanding of the world on its head.