Charles Handy
Charles Handy
Charles Handyis an Irish author/philosopher specialising in organisational behaviour and management. Among the ideas he has advanced are the "portfolio worker" and the "Shamrock Organization"...
NationalityIrish
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CountryIreland
Charles Handy quotes about
life differences making-a-difference
Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.
suicide giving risk
The first step is to measure whatever can easily be measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can't be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide.
mean promise progress
If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.
islands work-out trying
Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by stepping into uncertainty and by trying, within this uncertainty, to create your own islands of security....The new security will be a belief that ...if this doesn't work out you could do something else. You are your own security.
standing-out boxes outside-the-box
You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.
children knowledge learning
Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child
business creativity rooms
Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.
community purpose pieces
In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property.
running communication worst-moments
Some of my unhappiest moments have been in organizations. Somehow it seems to be quite respectable to do things in organizations that you would never do in private life. I have had people insult me to my face in front of colleagues. I have had my feelings rammed down my throat on the pretext that it would do me good. I have been required to do things which I didn't agree with because the organization wished it... In my worst moments I have thought organizations were places designed to be run by sadists and staffed by masochists.
challenges inspire want
The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.
change water behaviour
I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be killed, boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behaviour.
change growth synonym
Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning.
real learning people
The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.
communication thinking law
If there is one general law of communication it is that we never communicate as effectively as we think we do.