Charles Handy

Ireland
Born on 1932
Author on Organisational Behaviour and Management

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)

Quote Image



Search

 

On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
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
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."
Essays