Writer provided prescient and provocative insights into the world of work
Author, thinker and public speaker Charles Handy, who died on Friday, aged 92, was one of the few non-Americans to merit the description “management guru”. It was a term he disliked, preferring the tag “social philosopher”. Handy favoured counselling over consulting for leaders and his chosen method was “Socratic dialogue”. It often took place over a meal at one of his homes in Putney or Norfolk, to which he and his wife Elizabeth invited interesting thinkers, writers and business people.
The change of direction gave him the time and freedom to write a series of books on modern organisations, including The Age of Unreason and The Empty Raincoat , in which he tackled the paradoxes and challenges of economic progress and the changing workplace. The transition also entailed what he later described as a rewriting of his “marriage contract” with Liz.
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