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Age of Unreason Paperback - 1998 - 1st Edition

by Charles Handy

Named one of the ten best business books of 1990 by Business Week, The Age of Unreason is now available in paperback. Charles Handy maintains that in an era of random change, it is necessary to break out of old ways of thinking in order to use change to one's advantage.


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In an era when change is constant, random, and, as Handy calls it, discontinuous, it is necessary to break out of old ways of thinking in order to use change to our advantage. Handy examines how dramatic changes are transforming business, education, and the nature of work. We can see it in astounding new developments in technology, in the shift in demand from manual to cerebral skills, and in the virtual disappearance of lifelong, full-time jobs. Handy maintains that discontinuous change requires discontinuous, upside-down thinking, and discusses the need for new kinds of organizations, new approaches to work, new types of schools, and new ideas about the nature of our society.

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THE SCENE was the General Synod of the Church of England in the 1980s.

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In this fascinating book, Charles Handy shows how dramatic changes are transforming business, education, and the nature of work. We can see them in astounding new developments in technology, in the shift in demand from manual to cerebral skills, and in the virtual disappearance of lifelong, full-time jobs.

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  • Title Age of Unreason
  • Author Charles Handy
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harvard Business Review Press, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  • Date February 1998
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780875843018 / 0875843018
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5 x 0.9 in (20.32 x 12.70 x 2.29 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Organizational change, Organizational behavior
  • Dewey Decimal Code 658.406

About the author

Charles Handy is an author and broadcaster living in London. He is a Fellow at the London Business School where he was a professor for many years. His books have sold over one million copies around the world. He has been, in his time, an oil executive, a business economist, a professor, and Chairman of the Royal Society of Arts.
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