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Charles Handy is perhaps best known outside the business world as a wise and warm presenter of Radio 4's "Thought for the Day". Here, he leaves the management territory he has so effectively and influentially mapped in the past to explore the issues and dilemmas - moral and creative - raised by the turning points of his long and successful life.

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The bestselling author of THE EMPTY RAINCOAT and THE AGE OF UNREASON examines life's big choices - taking the format of his famous BBC 'Thought for the Day' programme to frame the key phases of our life.Charles Handy is perhaps best known outside the business world as a wise and warm presenter of Radio 4's 'Thought for the Day'. Long recognised as one of the world's leading business thinkers (over a million copies of his books have been sold around the world), in Myself and Other More Important Matters he leaves the management territory he has so effectively and influentially mapped in the past to explore the wider issues and dilemmas - both moral and creative - raised by the turning points of his long and successful life.Here he investigates the big issues of how life can best be lived as they have emerged from the unfolding of his life and his unique and influential understanding of what really matters.From supplying oil by boat to an area larger than England as a bullish young Shell executive in Borneo to realising that there was a big difference between describing the development of a 'portfolio' life (made up of a variety of activities for a range of purposes and pay) in theory and actually himself leaving behind full-time employment, from helping to start up the London and Open business schools to listening and talking to people all over the world about how they want to manage their lives, Handy's telling of his experiences proves both revealing and significant.

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Best known outside the business world for his contributions to Radio 4's Thought For The Day, Charles Handy is the author of a range of business books, including The Empty Raincoat. Here, he provides a more personal account and explores moral and creative issues raised by the turning points of his long and successful life.

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'Charles Handy's books have been a godsend... Britain's leading management writer is consistently provocative, highly readable and insightful. You might not always agree with him, but he is sure to get you thinking. Myself and Other More Important Matters ...uses all his varied experience...to ask further searching questions about how we live and work and where society is headed.' Daily Telegraph Perhaps best known outside the business world as the wise and warm presenter of Radio 4's 'Thought for the Day', Charles Handy has long been recognised as one of the world's leading business thinkers. In Myself and Other More Important Matters, he leaves the management territory he has so effectively and influentially mapped in the past to investigate the wider issues and dilemmas - both moral and creative - raised by the turning points of his long and successful life. '[Goes] deeper into the heart of business than almost any book... It is a compelling, touching and finally inspiring journey... To paraphrase TS Eliot, his remarkable achievement is to bring us back to our starting point - but allow us to recognise the place for the first time.' Observer 'His writing is both spiritual...and practical: he makes you want to do something about your life, and at the same time convinces that you can... The most complete account yet of where the man and his ideas have come from. So much of it will strike home... Real inspiration...excellent advice. Times Educational Supplement 'Highly readable... A wise work from which we will all learn.' Sunday Times 'Handy at his best; humane, thoughtful and serious.' Financial Times

Author Biography

Charles Handy is a writer and broadcaster whose books have sold over one million copies around the world. He is the author of The Age of Unreason, The Empty Raincoat and The Elephant and the Flea, among other bestselling books.

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[Goes] deeper into the heart of business than almost any book that tackles the subject head on ... A compelling, touching and finally inspiring journey ... To paraphrase TS Eliot, his remarkable achievement is to bring us back to our starting point - but allow us to recognise the place for the first time * Observer *Highly readable ... A wise work from which we will all learn * Sunday Times *Handy at his best; humane, thoughtful and serious * Financial Times *His writing is both spiritual ... and practical: he makes you want to do something about your life, and at the same time convinces that you can, and furnishes you with some good examples of how to go about it ... So much of it will strike home ... Real inspiration ... excellent advice * Times Educational Supplement *Charles Handy is a true statesman in the field . . . a wizened dean of faculty for the world of independent thinkers -- Jim Collins, author of Good to Great

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The bestselling author of THE EMPTY RAINCOAT and THE AGE OF UNREASON examines life's big choices - taking the format of his famous BBC 'Thought for the Day' programme to frame the key phases of our life.

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[Goes] deeper into the heart of business than almost any book that tackles the subject head on ... A compelling, touching and finally inspiring journey ... To paraphrase TS Eliot, his remarkable achievement is to bring us back to our starting point - but allow us to recognise the place for the first time

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"Charles Handy is a true statesman in the field . . . a wizened dean of faculty for the world of independent thinkers." Jim Collins, author ofGood to Great

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"The bestselling author of THE EMPTY RAINCOAT and THE AGE OF UNREASON examines life's big choices - taking the format of his famous BBC 'Thought for the Day' programme to frame the key phases of our life.

Details ISBN009948188X Year 2007 ISBN-10 009948188X ISBN-13 9780099481881 Format Paperback Publication Date 2007-05-03 Imprint Arrow Books Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 658.0092 Illustrations 8 pp b&w Media Book Publisher Cornerstone Author Charles Handy Pages 240 Language English UK Release Date 2007-05-03 AU Release Date 2007-05-03 NZ Release Date 2007-05-03 Alternative 9781446455494 Audience General We've got this

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