Myself and Other More Important Matters

Charles B. Handy

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One of the world's most influential living management thinkers, Charles Handy has year-after-year been listed alongside business gurus including Peter Drucker and Tom Peters in the prestigious Thinkers 50 list. His views on management -- and life -- have inspired and enlightened others for decades. Now, in Myself and Other More Important Matters, the bestselling author of books including The Age of Unreason shares his special brand of wisdom, giving readers uncommon insight into business and careers...as well as the choices we all have to make in our lives.

Handy draws on the lessons of his own experience to help readers move beyond the facts they learned in business school and reflect on their own individual management style. With the "philosophical elegance and eloquence" Warren Bennis has described as his trademark, Handy discusses how one should develop one’s career goals in line with personal values and sense of ethics. Handy entertainingly recounts what he’s discovered along his own international journey: from lessons his father taught him growing up in Ireland…to what he learned in Borneo in his days working for Royal Dutch Shell… to Italy, where he bought and fixed up an old house in Tuscany…all the way to America, where recent corporate scandals have shaken our understanding of what is ethical and acceptable.

Throughout the book, Handy asks us to look at the role of work in our life, and what we truly find fulfilling. It is hard to imagine a better or wiser guide to work -- and life’s -- big questions.

Charles Handy is often referred to as Britain’s greatest management thinker. He has written some of the most influential management articles and books of the past 30 years, including The Age of Unreason, The Elephant and the Flea, The Future or Work, and The Age of Paradox. Mr. Handy worked for Royal Dutch Shell International in South-East Asia and London and then entered the Sloan School of Management at MIT. He then helped to start the London Business School and later became warden of St. George’s House at Windsor Castle, managing a program bringing together captains of industry, trade union leaders, civil servants, politicians, bishops and chaplains to discuss issues in society and to trade ideas. Today, Mr. Handy works on writing projects while moving between bases in England and Italy.

	Contents
	To My American Readers	vi
	Acknowledgements	ix
	List of Plates	x
1	Are You Sure?	1
2	Irish Beginnings	12
3	Greek Wisdom	22
4	Borneo Lessons	32
5	The Golden Seeds	44
6	Schools for Business	57
7	The Antigone Challenge	69
8	My Father’s Death	80
9	Home Is a Castle	89
10	St Michael and St George	102
11	A Portfolio Life	117
12	The Property Business	133
13	Kitchens and Studies	144
14	Kennels for Kids	155
15	Family Matters	168
16	Guru Times	179
17	Travels with a Microphone	194
18	A Seventieth Birthday	203

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The Elephant and the Flea
The Age of Unreason
The Age of Paradox