The Hungry Spirit
  • Published: 2 October 1998
  • ISBN: 9780099227724
  • Imprint: Random House Business
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $27.99

The Hungry Spirit

New Thinking for a New World

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An extraordinarily eloquent and original treatise on the discomfort that many feel as a result of the overriding quest for corporate profit and personal advancement.

With his characteristically very personal anecdotal style, Charles Handy analyses how materialistic capitalism is self-limiting, how efficiency may be the enemy of a cohesive society, and examines the false certainties of science and religion. Offering a carefully considered and compelling alternative vision, the book challenges the status quo on everything from capitalism and organization to goal-setting and morality. With nods to Kant, Keynes, Sartre and Drucker, The Hungry Spirit is not your usual business tome, but that, of course, is part of Handy's plan.
  • Published: 2 October 1998
  • ISBN: 9780099227724
  • Imprint: Random House Business
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $27.99
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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 Hungry Spirit

The Hungry Spirit is the distillation of a lifetime’s experience, a personal recipe for what we have to do to survive in a capitalist society.

People Management

The Hungry Spirit is a wide-ranging examination of business and social problems … shrewd, scholarly, thoughtful analysis.

Modern Management

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

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