The Empty Raincoat

Making Sense of the Future

Charles Handy

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Random House Business Books
06 June 1999

Social forecasting, future studies; Organisational theory & behaviour

New thinking for a new world.
*Can you find the way to Davy's bar?
*Do you know the Doughnut principal?
*How do you make a Chinese contract? The changes which Charles Handy foresaw in THE AGE OF UNREASON are happening. Endless growth can make a candyfloss economy, and capitalism must be its own sternest critic. Handy reaches here for a philosophy beyond the mechanics of business organisations, beyond material choices, to try and establish an alternative universe where the work ethics can contain a natural sense of continuity, connections and a sense of direction. We are now a world of shareholders, but everyone has a stake in the future. With warmth, wit and the most challenging insights, Charles Handy seeks to turn paradox into real progress.

By: Charles Handy
Imprint: Random House Business Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 202g
ISBN: 9780099301257
ISBN 10: 0099301253
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 06 June 1999
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Charles Handy was a writer, broadcaster and teacher, as well as a former oil executive, an economist, a professor at the London Business School, the Warden of St. George's House in Windsor Castle and the chairman of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. He was born in Co. Kildare in Ireland, the son of an archdeacon, and educated in Ireland, England (Oxford University) and the USA (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). His many books include The Empty Raincoat, Gods of Management, The Second Curve and 21 Letters.

Reviews for The Empty Raincoat: Making Sense of the Future

If you are part of, think about, care about or are in any way influenced by the world of work, and who is not, this powerful and moving book is for you -- Sir Graham Day * Financial Times * A necessary and important contribution to our understanding of the way we live now -- Hamish McRae * Director Magazine *