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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Organisations need talented women in their core jobs...because many will have the kinds of attitudes and attributes that the new flexible organisation will need. If they screen out the women they will handicap their futures.
The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility.
In the past, business was the employer of all those who wanted to work. In the future, there will be lots of customers, but not lots of jobs.
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.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
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
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
Essays