| 商家名称 | 信用等级 | 购买信息 | 订购本书 |
 |
 |
Beyond Certainty: The Changing Worlds of Organizations |  |
 |
|
Beyond Certainty: The Changing Worlds of Organizations | |
In vintage Handy style, the author offers wisdom and truths about work and organizational life. Beyond Certainty is a book to dip into, enjoy, and share with colleagues and friends.
作者简介 Charles Handy has been an oil executive, an economist, and a professor at the London Business School. His books on organizations and the future, including The Age of Unreason and The Age of Paradox from HBS Press, have now sold over one million copies worldwide.
媒体推荐 In Beyond Certainty, Handy "observes the world around him with a shrewd and perceptive eye....The essay is his natural milieu." --Financial Times
"Anyone exposed to long-term, pick-of-the-month guru rumblings or mind-boggling businessbabble will think they have wandered into a clear spot in the forest when they encounter Handy for the first time.... His writing is crisp and lucid, and his grasp on the human dilemma is remarkably encompassing." --Chicago Tribune
"Charles Handy is a national treasure--and an international one....Beyond Certainty would be a good place to start for an aspiring manager or management trainee in need of wisdom." --People Management Today
"If you wonder where life in business is headed, Beyond Certainty is a wonderful read." --Atlanta Business Chronicle -- Book Reviews
专业书评 From Library Journal
In this collection of essays, the British management consultant, social philosopher, and author of The Age of Unreason (LJ 11/15/90), The Age of Paradox (McGraw-Hill, 1994), and Gods of Management (Oxford Univ., 1995) brings together 35 short pieces that reflect his musings on the changing and uncertain world of the future. Handy, who is one of the most graceful and articulate writers on the business scene, discusses some of his favorite themes. These include his belief that federalism will be the organizational structure of the future and that individuals will ultimately have a portfolio of jobs rather than a single career or profession, and the importance of allowing greater freedom for the individual employee. This work is an excellent introduction to this important business and social commentator and is highly recommended for all major collections.?Robert L. Logsdon, Indiana State Univ. Lib., Indianapolis
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Booklist
Handy is perhaps the leading management thinker in Great Britain today, and he can be compared to Peter Drucker. Handy's Age of Unreason (1989) and Age of Paradox (1994) have found such wide U.S. readership that Gods of Management, his first book, was reissued late last year so it could be introduced over here. Now comes this collection of 35 essays; 31 of these short, thoughtful pieces are new to the U.S., having appeared in the British management journal Director. Handy's constant theme is uncertainty as he considers the nature and culture of work, the paradox of economic growth, the challenge of education, and the role of organizations. David Rouse --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
目录
Acknowledgments Introduction
Chapter 1: Beyond Certainty: A Personal Odyssey
Chapter 2: The Coming Work Culture
Chapter 3: Balancing Corporate Power: A New Federalist Paper
Chapter 4: What Is a Company For?
Chapter 5: Are Jobs for Life Killing Enterprise?
Chapter 6: Why There's Life After Work
Chapter 7: Teach Your Children Well
Chapter 8: What They Don't Teach You at Business School
Chapter 9: A Company Possessed?
Chapter 10: Are We All Federalists Now?
Chapter 11: Are There Bugs in Our Offices?
Chapter 12: In Search of an Ideal World
Chapter 13: The Parable of a Fallen City
Chapter 14: Should We Be Paying Higher Taxes?
Chapter 15: The Great Rowing Eight of Life
Chapter 16: Is There Time to Raise Our Standards?
Chapter 17: When Arithmetic Doesn't Count
Chapter 18: Be Good, Get Rich, but Stay Small
Chapter 19: Japan's Women-Oriented Workplace
Chapter 20: Work Is Where I Have My Meetings
Chapter 21: How to Learn from the "Real Thing"
Chapter 22: Ancient Greeks or Modern Britons?
Chapter 23: The Birth of the Conceptual College
Chapter 24: The Challenge of a Second Lifetime
Chapter 25: Flexing, Chunking, and Changing
Chapter 26: Paying Our Last Respects to Honor
Chapter 27: Can the Dream Become a Nightmare?
Chapter 28: When Companies Are Condominiums
Chapter 29: Make Your Business a Monastery
Chapter 30: What It Takes to Make a Manager
Chapter 31: The New Age of Positive Power
Chapter 32: All Change in the World of Work
Chapter 33: The Gun Laws of Galapagos
Chapter 34: Living Fast, Dying Rich
Chapter 35: How Do You Manage When You Can't See the People? Index About the Author
……
