The Age of Unreason - Softcover

Handy, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0875843018 ISBN 13: 9780875843018

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press, 1991

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0875843018
• ISBN 13: 9780875843018
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288