The Elephant And The Flea: New Thinking For A New World

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'Charles Handy is Britain's only world-class management guru.' Director Bookseller Charles Handy's best-selling new book looks at how individuals (the fleas in his analogy) relate to multi-national conglomerates (the elephants). In addition to addressing how and why we work today, he covers a wide range of preoccupations and issues including the increasing fear of big business- 'it is easy to see why many observers think that the big corporations are now both richer and more powerful than many nation states. They worry that these new corporate states are accountable to no-one - that their financial clout makes governments beholden to them ... The elephants, people feel, are out of control.'

Reviews

He makes difficult stuff seem easy * Management Today *
'In this very readable book Handy makes you think more about the impact of these diverse changes on the whole world of human endeavour, not just the world of work. * Human Resources Magazine *
You will find yourself constantly returning to the book and quoting extracts to collegues...This latest offering is a joy to read. It is one of those rare things, a book by a management author that you want to devour at one sitting. * Ambassdor *
This is an ambitious treatment of the future of everything. * Canary *
It is classic Handy...It is entertaining, thought provoking, humanistic and wise in equal measures. * FMX *
This latest offering is a joy to read. It is one of those rare things, a book by a management author that you want to devour at one sitting. * Ambassador *
Handy has that rare gift among business writers - able to talk sense and leave out the jargon - This title will appeal to a very wide audience, because it is everything a business book should be - very readable and thought provoking. * Business and Computer *

Author Bio

Charles Handy was a writer, broadcaster and teacher, as well as a former oil executive, an economist, a professor at the London Business School, the Warden of St. George's House in Windsor Castle and the chairman of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. He was born in Co. Kildare in Ireland, the son of an archdeacon, and educated in Ireland, England (Oxford University) and the USA (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). His many books include The Empty Raincoat, Gods of Management, The Second Curve and 21 Letters.