| Description |
vii, 221 pages ; 22 cm |
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Arrow Business books |
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Arrow business books.
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| Contents |
1. Beyond Certainty: A Personal Odyssey -- 2. The Coming Work Culture -- 3. Balancing Corporate Power: A New Federalist Paper -- 4. What Is a Company For? -- 5. Are Jobs for Life Killing Enterprise? -- 6. Why There's Life After Work -- 7. Teach Your Children Well -- 8. What They Don't Teach You at Business School -- 9. A Company Possessed? -- 10. Are We All Federalists Now? -- 11. Are There Bugs in Our Offices? -- 12. In Search of an Ideal World... -- 13. The Parable of a Fallen City -- 14. Should We Be Paying Higher Taxes? -- 15. The Great Rowing Eight of Life -- 16. Is There Time to Raise Our Standards? -- 17. When Arithmetic Doesn't Count -- 18. Be Good, Get Rich, but Stay Small -- 19. Japan's Women-Oriented Workplace -- 20. Work Is Where I Have My Meetings -- 21. How to Learn from the "Real Thing" -- 22. Ancient Greeks or Modern Britons? -- 23. The Birth of the Conceptual College -- 24. The Challenge of a Second Lifetime -- 25. Flexing, Chunking, and Changing -- 26. Paying Our Last Respects to Honor -- 27. Can the Dream Become a Nightmare? -- 28. When Companies Are Condominiums -- 29. Make Your Business a Monastery -- 30. What It Takes to Make a Manager -- 31. The New Age of Positive Power -- 32. All Change in the World of Work -- 33. The Gun Laws of Galapagos -- 34. Living Fast, Dying Rich -- 35. How Do You Manage When You Can't See the People? |
| Summary |
In this challenging and exhilarating collection of 35 recent essays, the best-selling author and social philosopher shares his reflections on a changing world, a world in which we can be certain only of uncertainty. To plan for the future in such an environment, says Charles Handy, we must learn to think differently. In vintage Handy style, the author offers pearls of wisdom and truths about work and organizational life. He advocates compromise as the path to progress and urges organizations to give more freedom to individual employees in order to maintain a balance between commitment and creativity. Beyond Certainty is a book to dip into, enjoy, and share with colleagues and friends |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Subject |
Corporate reorganizations.
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Manpower planning.
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Organizational change.
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Social change.
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Organizational Culture.
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Organizational Objectives.
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Organizations.
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Quality of Life.
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Organizational Innovation.
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| LC no. |
95038960 |
| ISBN |
0875846718 |
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0875847633 (paperback) |
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