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Charles Handy
(born 1932) Irish economist
Charles Brian Handy CBEis an Irish author/philosopher specialising in organisational behaviour and management. Among the ideas he has advanced are the “portfolio career” and the “shamrock organization” (in which professional core workers, freelance workers and part-time/temporary routine workers each form one leaf of the “shamrock”).
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About the Charles Handy
Charles Brian Handy CBEis an Irish author/philosopher specialising in organisational behaviour and management. Among the ideas he has advanced are the “portfolio career” and the “shamrock organization” (in which professional core workers, freelance workers and part-time/temporary routine workers each form one leaf of the “shamrock”).
He has been rated among the Thinkers 50, a private list of the most influential living management thinkers. In 2001 he was second on this list, behind Peter Drucker, and in 2005 he was tenth. When the Harvard Business Review had a special issue to mark the publication’s 50th anniversary Handy, Peter Drucker, and Henry Mintzberg were asked to write special articles.
In July 2006 Handy was conferred with an honorary Doctor of Laws by Trinity College Dublin.
2 Quotes by Charles Handy
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Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.
Charles Handy(born 1932) Irish economist
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The companies that survive longest are the one’s that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.
Charles Handy(born 1932) Irish economist