The Elephant And The Flea
  • Published: 2 December 2002
  • ISBN: 9780099415657
  • Imprint: Random House Business
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $27.99
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The Elephant And The Flea

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'Charles Handy is Britain's only world-class management guru.' Director

Bookseller Charles Handy's best-selling new book looks at how individuals (the fleas in his analogy) relate to multi-national conglomerates (the elephants). In addition to addressing how and why we work today, he covers a wide range of preoccupations and issues including the increasing fear of big business: 'it is easy to see why many observers think that the big corporations are now both richer and more powerful than many nation states. They worry that these new corporate states are accountable to no-one - that their financial clout makes governments beholden to them ... The elephants, people feel, are out of control.'
  • Published: 2 December 2002
  • ISBN: 9780099415657
  • Imprint: Random House Business
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $27.99
Categories:

About the author

Charles Handy

Charles Handy is an independent writer, broadcaster and teacher. He has been an oil executive, an economist, a professor at the London Business School, the Warden of St. George's House in Windsor Castle and the chairman of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce. He was born in Co. Kildare in Ireland, the son of an archdeacon, and educated in Ireland, England (Oxford University) and the USA (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). His many books include The Empty Raincoat, Understanding Organizations, Gods of Management, The Future of Work and Waiting for the Mountain to Move.

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Praise for The Elephant And The Flea

He makes difficult stuff seem easy

Management Today

You will find yourself constantly returning to the book and quoting extracts to collegues...This latest offering is a joy to read. It is one of those rare things, a book by a management author that you want to devour at one sitting.

Ambassdor

'In this very readable book Handy makes you think more about the impact of these diverse changes on the whole world of human endeavour, not just the world of work.

Human Resources Magazine

This is an ambitious treatment of the future of everything.

Canary

It is classic Handy...It is entertaining, thought provoking, humanistic and wise in equal measures.

FMX

This latest offering is a joy to read. It is one of those rare things, a book by a management author that you want to devour at one sitting.

Ambassador

Handy has that rare gift among business writers - able to talk sense and leave out the jargon - This title will appeal to a very wide audience, because it is everything a business book should be - very readable and thought provoking.

Business and Computer