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Charles Handy

Disciplines:
management
political theory/organizational theory

Summary

Irish management theorist and philosopher who has written elegantly on organizational change, the nature of work, and the future of capitalism.

Core Contribution

The Age of Unreason: discontinuous change means that organizations and individuals must learn to think in fundamentally different ways. The portfolio life: the future of work is not career but a portfolio of activities — paid work, volunteer work, study, home work. The Empty Raincoat (The Age of Paradox): the central paradox of modernity — we have more of everything and feel less. Gods of Management: four management cultures represented by Greek gods.

Notable Works & Achievements

Understanding Organizations

The Age of Unreason

The Empty Raincoat

The New Alchemists

Historical Influences

Peter Drucker Roger Harrison

Intellectual Lineage

British Management Thought

Contemporaries & Peers

Peter Drucker

Minds Influenced

Management Theory Future of Work Discourse

Intellectual Posterity

Portfolio Career Concept

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