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The elephant and the flea / Charles Handy.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Arrow, 2002.Description: 233 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0099415658 (pbk.)
  • 9780099415657 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.04092 BRA
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Standard Loan Clonmel Library Main Collection 306.0905 HAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available R19527LKRC
Standard Loan Thurles Library Main Collection 306.0905 HAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available R19337KKRC
Standard Loan Thurles Library Main Collection 306.0905 HAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available R19481KKRC

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.'

Cover subtitle, "New thinking for a new world".

First published by Hutchinson in 2001.

Includes index.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

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 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.

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