ISBN: 009948188X
Godina izdanja: 2007
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Charles Handy - Myself and Other More Important Matters
Arrow, 2007
213 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

Charles Handy is perhaps best known outside the business world as a wise and warm presenter of Radio 4`s `Thought for the Day`. Long recognised as one of the world`s leading business thinkers (over a million copies of his books have been sold around the world), in Myself and Other More Important Matters he leaves the management territory he has so effectively and influentially mapped in the past to explore the wider issues and dilemmas - both moral and creative - raised by the turning points of his long and successful life.Here he investigates the big issues of how life can best be lived as they have emerged from the unfolding of his life and his unique and influential understanding of what really matters.

From supplying oil by boat to an area larger than England as a bullish young Shell executive in Borneo to realising that there was a big difference between describing the development of a `portfolio` life (made up of a variety of activities for a range of purposes and pay) in theory and actually himself leaving behind full-time employment, from helping to start up the London and Open business schools to listening and talking to people all over the world about how they want to manage their lives, Handy`s telling of his experiences proves both revealing and significant.
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One of the world`s most influential living management thinkers, Charles Handy has year-after-year been listed alongside business gurus including Peter Drucker and Tom Peters in the prestigious Thinkers 50 list. His views on management -- and life -- have inspired and enlightened others for decades. Now, in Myself and Other More Important Matters, the bestselling author of books including The Age of Unreason shares his special brand of wisdom, giving readers uncommon insight into business and careers...as well as the choices we all have to make in our lives.
Handy draws on the lessons of his own experience to help readers move beyond the facts they learned in business school and reflect on their own individual management style. With the `philosophical elegance and eloquence` Warren Bennis has described as his trademark, Handy discusses how one should develop one’s career goals in line with personal values and sense of ethics. Handy entertainingly recounts what he’s discovered along his own international journey: from lessons his father taught him growing up in Ireland…to what he learned in Borneo in his days working for Royal Dutch Shell… to Italy, where he bought and fixed up an old house in Tuscany…all the way to America, where recent corporate scandals have shaken our understanding of what is ethical and acceptable.

Throughout the book, Handy asks us to look at the role of work in our life, and what we truly find fulfilling. It is hard to imagine a better or wiser guide to work -- and life’s -- big questions.
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[Goes] deeper into the heart of business than almost any book that tackles the subject head on ... A compelling, touching and finally inspiring journey ... To paraphrase TS Eliot, his remarkable achievement is to bring us back to our starting point - but allow us to recognise the place for the first time
Observer
Highly readable ... A wise work from which we will all learn
Sunday Times
Handy at his best; humane, thoughtful and serious
Financial Times
His writing is both spiritual ... and practical: he makes you want to do something about your life, and at the same time convinces that you can, and furnishes you with some good examples of how to go about it ... So much of it will strike home ... Real inspiration ... excellent advice
Times Educational Supplement
Charles Handy is a true statesman in the field . . . a wizened dean of faculty for the world of independent thinkers
Jim Collins, author of Good to Great
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Contents:
Are you sure?
Irish beginnings
Greek wisdom
Borneo lessons
The golden seeds
Schools for business
The antigone challenge
My father`s death
Home is a castle
St Michael and St George
a portfolio life
The property business
Kitchens and studies
Kennels for kids
Family matters
Guru times
Travels with a microphone
A seventieth birthday


Nonfiction, Biography, Management, Memoir, 009948188X