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In an era when change is constant, random, and, as Handy calls it, discontinuous, it is necessary to break out of old ways of thinking in order to use change to our advantage. Handy examines how dramatic changes are transforming business, education, and the nature of work. We can see it in astounding new developments in technology, in the shift in demand from manual to cerebral skills, and in the virtual disappearance of lifelong, full-time jobs. Handy maintains that discontinuous change requires discontinuous, upside-down thinking, and discusses the need for new kinds of organizations, new approaches to work, new types of schools, and new ideas about the nature of our society.
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In this fascinating book, Charles Handy shows how dramatic changes are transforming business, education, and the nature of work. We can see them in astounding new developments in technology, in the shift in demand from manual to cerebral skills, and in the virtual disappearance of lifelong, full-time jobs.
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Charles Handy is an author and broadcaster living in London. He is a Fellow at the London Business School where he was a professor for many years. His books have sold over one million copies around the world. He has been, in his time, an oil executive, a business economist, a professor, and Chairman of the Royal Society of Arts.
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tapa dura. Condition: Bien. Twentieth century, Forecasts., Twenty-first century, Electronic books Hutchinson Business. London. 1989. viii, 216 pages : illustrations. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta. Idioma Inglés. Includes index. Includes bibliographical references and index. DBM 112 ; Business Development ; Seale-Hayne Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Land Use. First published in 1989 by Business Books Ltd an imprint of Century Hutchinson Ltd. Print version record. Other version: The age of unreason / Charles Handy. - 2nd ed. Local: ISBN: 0875843018 (pbk. ). Contents Changing. The argument -- The numbers -- The theory -- Working. The shamrock organization -- The federal organization -- The triple I organization -- Living. Portfolios -- Re-inventing education -- An upside-down society . ISBN: 0091740886; 9780091740887; 0099548313; 97800995483 (=3074352=) HL11. Seller Inventory # 3074352