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Myself and Other More Important Matters Charles Handy

Myself and Other More Important Matters By Charles Handy

Myself and Other More Important Matters by Charles Handy


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Explores the issues and dilemmas, both moral and creative, raised by the turning points of the author's long and successful life. This book investigates the big issues of how life can best be lived as they have emerged from the unfolding of his life and his understanding of what really matters.

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Myself and Other More Important Matters Summary

Myself and Other More Important Matters by Charles Handy

Charles Handy is perhaps best known outside the business world as a wise and warm presenter of Radio 4's Thought for the Day. Long recognised as one of the world's leading business thinkers (over a million copies of his books have been sold around the world), in Myself and Other More Important Matters, he leaves the management territory he has so effectively and influentially mapped in the past to explore the wider issues and dilemmas - both moral and creative - raised by the turning points of his long and successful life. Here he investigates the big issues of how life can best be lived as they have emerged from the unfolding of his life and his unique and influential understanding of what really matters. From supplying oil by boat to an area larger than England as a bullish young Shell executive in Borneo to realising that there was a big difference between describing the development of a 'portfolio' life (made up of a variety of activities for a range of purposes and pay) in theory and actually himself leaving behind full-time employment, from helping to start up the London and Open business schools to listening and talking to people all over the world about how they want to manage their lives, Handy's telling of his experiences proves both revealing and significant. Ultimately his thoughtful questioning of his own life is designed to inspire our own - what do we really value? Is it money? Time? Family and community? What is the role of work in our lives? What do we find fulfilling? In his wonderfully engaging and drily witty telling of his own story, Charles Handy provides us with the opportunity to learn life-lessons from one of our wisest contemporaries - and ultimately to inform and influence our own making of life's major decisions.

Myself and Other More Important Matters Reviews

Charles Handy is a true statesman in the field... a wizened dean of faculty for the world of independent thinkers. -- Jim Collins, Author Of Good To Great If Peter Drucker is responsible for legitimising the field of management and Tom Peters for popularising it, then Charles Handy should be known as the person who gave it a philosophical elegance and eloquence that was missing from the field.' -- Warren Bennis Author Of On Becoming A Leader

About Charles Handy

Charles Handy is a writer and broadcaster whose books have sold over one million copies around the world. He is the author of The Age of Unreason, The Empty Raincoat and The Elephant and the Flea, among other bestselling books.

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CIN0434013463VG
9780434013463
0434013463
Myself and Other More Important Matters by Charles Handy
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Cornerstone
20060504
224
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