Title:
The age of unreason
Author:
Handy, Charles B.
ISBN:
9780875842462
9780875843018
9780099548317
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, ©1989.
Physical Description:
xii, 278 pages ; 21 cm
General Note:
"First published in Great Britain in 1989 by Business Books Ltd"--Title page verso.
Contents:
Changing. The argument -- The numbers -- The theory -- Working. The shamrock organization -- The federal organization -- The triple I organization -- Living. Portfolios -- Re-inventing education -- An upside-down society.
Abstract:
Shows how dramatic changes are transforming businesses, education, and the nature of work. Handy maintains that discontinuous change requires discontinuous, upside-down thinking. We need new kinds of organizations, new approaches to work, new types of schools and new ideas about the nature of our society.