The Elephant and the Flea
by Charles Handy
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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 show more no-one ... that their financial clout makes governments beholden to them ... The elephants, people feel, are out of control.' show lessTags
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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 show more 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. show less
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- Genres
- Business, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 306.0905 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce Social history
- LCC
- CB161 .H25 — Auxiliary Sciences of History History of Civilization History of Civilization Forecasts of future progress
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- Languages
- 6 — Dutch, English, Estonian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
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