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Charles Handy

  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    Obituary
    Charles Handy, management thinker and author, 1932-2024

    Writer provided prescient and provocative insights into the world of work

  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2019
    Michael Skapinker
    Hospitals are ideal material for management writers

    The trouble with analysing care providers is that no two facilities are alike

    LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 13: Two NHS staff walk with an elderly patient outside St Thomas' Hospital on October 13, 2011 in London, England. Inspections carried out by the Care Quality Commission in England have found concerns in the standard of basic elderly care in over half the hospitals assessed. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
  • Friday, 13 September, 2019
    Out of Office
    Charles Handy: what Boris Johnson can learn from croquet

    The management thinker on preferring tactics to playing, thinking three hoops ahead, and ‘the curse of efficiency’

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  • Wednesday, 19 October, 2016
    Michael Skapinker
    Brexit will test UK managers’ worth

    If foreign investment falls, leadership failings will be laid bare

    An employee adjusts a Nissan Juke on the production line at the Nissan Motor Co. production plant in Sunderland, U.K., on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015. Nissan rose 0.7 percent at the close Thursday in Tokyo trading. Photographer: Luke MacGregor/Bloomberg
  • Monday, 18 January, 2016
    Management
    When CEOs have to be there — and when they do not

    While Accenture’s boss now beams in by hologram, face-to-face meetings still count

    Pierre Nanterme ceo Accenture, attending’ an internal meeting in the USA from Paris. He was speaking via a hologram image of himself, to a group of about 500 managing directors at the Managing Director School in St. Charles.
  • Monday, 28 December, 2015
    Work & Careers
    Freedom or identity crisis? The portfolio career mystery

    Taking on a variety of roles is not easy, especially when young, writes Herminia Ibarra

    Eager businesswoman lifting her hand to ask a question during a meeting
  • Wednesday, 8 July, 2015
    Andrew Hill
    The riff: seats of learning

    MPs should listen to what the management thinker Henry Mintzberg has to say on classroom layout

    The adversarial seating in the House of Commons is ill-suited to an age in which coalition is more common
  • Friday, 26 June, 2015
    ReviewLife & Arts
    Summer reading: Business books

    Andrew Hill picks his books for the year so far

  • Wednesday, 1 April, 2015
    Books
    Review: Confronting Capitalism, by Philip Kotler

    The marketing expert known to generations of students turns his gaze to capitalism’s flaws

  • Wednesday, 4 March, 2015
    ReviewBooks
    Review: ‘The Second Curve’ by Charles Handy

    A radical manifesto for business and the DIY society from a prescient thinker

  • Sunday, 30 November, 2014
    Business education
    Business is tackling the difficult questions politics has dodged

    Simon Caulkin on the big issue politicians dodge

  • Thursday, 27 February, 2014
    Work & Careers
    Midwives to a happy retirement

    Specialist coaches are helping older executives make the transition out of full-time work

    A WORK PARTY FROM THE COTSWOLD CANALS TRUST HAVE A BREAK FROM CLEARING TREES FROM THE TOW PATH AT STONEHOUSE AS PART OF THE REST. Image shot 2008. Exact date unknown.
  • Sunday, 28 July, 2013
    SoapboxBusiness education
    Business schools should produce what companies need

    An MBA is designed to produce graduates to fit into the business environment, not to challenge it

  • Wednesday, 12 June, 2013
    Special Report
    Management

    The most innovative thinking on how to run organisations recognises the constantly changing nature of business, says Andrew Hill

    A businessman walks out from an office building in front of the Bank of Japan
  • Sunday, 14 April, 2013
    InterviewThe Monday Interview
    Charles Handy: righting management wrongs

    Britain’s best-known business guru believes modern companies damage personal relationships

    Management Guru Charles Handy at his South London home.
  • Friday, 26 October, 2012
    Life & Arts
    Financial tomes

    The trick of writing a memorable and durable business classic has proved hard to repeat

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