Charles Handy
Ireland
Born on 1932
Author on Organisational Behaviour and Management
Born on 1932
Author on Organisational Behaviour and Management
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Management by trust, empathy, and forgiveness sounds good. It also sounds soft. It is in practice tough. Organizations based on trust have, on occasion, to be ruthless.
Harvard Business Review (1992)
Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.
The Empty Raincoat Making Sense of the Future (1994)
The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.
Organisations have their essential core of jobs and people surrounded by an open and flexible space which they fill with flexible workers and flexible supply contracts.
The Empty Raincoat: Making Sense of the Future (1994)
Most individuals, by the time they reach maturity, have built up an array of concepts which they use to interpret the data they observe.
Understanding Organisations (1993)
We are self-activating organisms, and can, to some degree, control our own destiny and our own responses to pressures... we can select our goals and choose the paths toward them.
Understanding Organisations (1993)
Most of our organization tends to be arranged on the assumption that people cannot be trusted... that sort of attitude creates a paraphernalia of systems, checkers, and checkers checking checkers � expensive and deadening.
'Trust and the Virtual Organization,' Harvard Business Review (1991)
We were not destined to be empty raincoats, nameless numbers on a payroll... If that is to be its price, economic progress is an empty promise.
BusinessWeek (1994)
If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.
The Empty Raincoat Making Sense of the Future (1994)
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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