Charles Handy
Charles Handy
Charles Handyis an Irish author/philosopher specialising in organisational behaviour and management. Among the ideas he has advanced are the "portfolio worker" and the "Shamrock Organization"...
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CountryIreland
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mean promise progress
If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.
children knowledge learning
Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child
business creativity rooms
Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.
suicide giving risk
The first step is to measure whatever can easily be measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can't be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide.
change water behaviour
I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be killed, boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behaviour.
responsibility sorting substitutes
The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility.
life differences making-a-difference
Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.
heart people fortune-cookie
Purpose, pattern, and people, the three P's at the heart of life.
islands work-out trying
Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by stepping into uncertainty and by trying, within this uncertainty, to create your own islands of security....The new security will be a belief that ...if this doesn't work out you could do something else. You are your own security.
team successful supportive
A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human prison.
learning tranquility understood
Learning is experience understood in tranquility.
business mean finance
Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.
relationship children school
Why don't we teach our children in school what they are? We should say to them, 'You are unique... you have the capacity for anything. You are a marvel'.
winning healthy competition
Competition is healthy ... but there is more to life than winning or we should nearly all be losers