Business Masterminds Charles Handy [Paperback]

Robert Heller (Author)

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Series: Business Masterminds | Publication Date: March 15, 2001

4Social philosopher Charles Handy is widely regarded as the chief prophet of the modern workplace. Many of his predictions have already come true, including the decline of the traditional organization and job, and the emergence of the portfolio career. In this volume, Robert Heller reveals the key ideas shaping Charles Handy's radical approach to business management and presents a series of masterclasses showing how to apply his unique insights. Explore Handy's views on seeing businesses as communities, the four gods of organizational culture, challenging dogma, making groups work, living by the "doughnut principle", the benefits of a horizontal career and curing role stress.

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About the Author

Robert Heller is himself a prolific author of management books. The first, The Naked Manager, published in 1972, established Heller as an iconoclastic, wide-ranging guide to managerial excellence -- and incompetence. Heller has drawn on the extensive knowledge of managers and management that he acquired as the founding editor of Management Today, Britain's premier business magazine, which he headed for 25 years. Books such as The Supermanagers and In Search of European Excellence address the ways in which the latest ideas on change, quality, and motivation are providing new routes to business success. In 1990 Heller wrote Culture Shock, one of the first books to describe how IT would revolutionize management. Since then, as writer, lecturer, and consultant, Heller has continued to tell managers how to "Ride the Revolution," the title of his 2000 book, written with Paul Spenley. His books for Dorling Kindersley's Essential Managers series are international bestsellers. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Plc P/B (March 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 075132163X
• ISBN-13: 978-0751321630
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,112,884 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Review of His Works but great works they are, February 20, 2007

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This review is from: Charles Handy (Business Masterminds) (Hardcover)

Charles Handy is an interesting writer and researcher of the craft of management. In this business ideas series they basically review Handy's works over the years. It basically directs you to his various works and what is in them and summarizes those specific works. I found it worthwhile eventhough I had read most of his works previously. This is summarized but a great job and you can see if you want more of Handy from this work. Good book.