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The empty raincoat : making sense of the future / Charles Handy.

By: Handy, Charles B.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Hutchinson, 1994Description: viii, 280 p. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 0091780225 :.Subject(s): Work -- Forecasting | Social predictionDDC classification: 658.4
Contents:
The story behind the book -- Part One: In the dark wood: Confused by Paradox -- We are not where we hoped to be -- The paradoxes of our times -- Part Two: Finding the balance: Pathways through paradox -- The sigmoid curve -- The doughnut principle -- The chinese contract -- Part Three: Practising the preaching: Managing paradox -- The federalist idea -- Twin Citizenship -- Subsidiarity -- The meaning of business -- The corporate contract -- The membership business -- Redesigning life -- Working time -- Spliced lives -- A state of justice -- The intelligence investment -- The new scorecard -- Part Four: The search for meaning -- Making sense of paradox -- The three senses -- A sense of continuity -- A sense of connection -- A sense of direction.

Bibliography: (pages 273-275) and index.

The story behind the book -- Part One: In the dark wood: Confused by Paradox -- We are not where we hoped to be -- The paradoxes of our times -- Part Two: Finding the balance: Pathways through paradox -- The sigmoid curve -- The doughnut principle -- The chinese contract -- Part Three: Practising the preaching: Managing paradox -- The federalist idea -- Twin Citizenship -- Subsidiarity -- The meaning of business -- The corporate contract -- The membership business -- Redesigning life -- Working time -- Spliced lives -- A state of justice -- The intelligence investment -- The new scorecard -- Part Four: The search for meaning -- Making sense of paradox -- The three senses -- A sense of continuity -- A sense of connection -- A sense of direction.

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Charles Handy was born in Kildare, Ireland, in 1932, and was for many years a professor at the London Business School. From 1977 to 1981, Handy served as warden of the St. George's House in Windsor Castle, a private conference and study center concerned with ethics and values in society. He is now an independent writer and broadcaster who describes himself, these days, as a social philosopher. Other books by Handy include Waiting for the Mountain to Move, Beyond Certainty, and The Hungry Spirit.