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Product Description: The authors identify three stages of leadership development: the early ingredients for success starting from childhood; the paths that current and aspiring leaders should follow once they start a career; and what leaders should do exceptionally well to become and remain outstanding in organizations operating in multicultural environments...read more
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9780230314238 | New edition (Palgrave Macmillan, September 15, 2011), cover price $95.00 | About this edition: The authors identify three stages of leadership development: the early ingredients for success starting from childhood; the paths that current and aspiring leaders should follow once they start a career; and what leaders should do exceptionally well to become and remain outstanding in organizations operating in multicultural environments.

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Who are the new philanthropists? And how is their philanthropy 'new'? This book portrays a new generation of practical philanthropists, men and women who help actively, working on the spot with the very people who need their aid, ensuring that the initiatives are sustainable in the longer term.
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9780434017096 | Reprint edition (Random House Uk Ltd, April 28, 2008), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Who are the new philanthropists?

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Product Description: This work discusses everything from the author's childhood in a Irish vicarage, to Oxford University, to his first job as an oil executive with Royal Dutch/Shell in the Far East, to a professorship at the London Business School, to chairmanship of the Royal Society of Arts, and finally to his current status as an eminent social philosopher and international business guru...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781578518227, titled "The Elephant and the Flea: Reflections of a Reluctant Capitalist" | Harvard Business School Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: From his childhood in an Irish vicarage, to Oxford University, to his first job as an oil executive with Royal Dutch/Shell in the Far East, to a professorship at the London Business School, to chairmanship of the Royal Society of Arts, and finally to his current status as an eminent social philosopher and international business guru, Charles Handy has viewed the business and economic workings of the twentieth century inside and out.

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9781591391289 | Harvard Business School Pr, February 1, 2003, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: This work discusses everything from the author's childhood in a Irish vicarage, to Oxford University, to his first job as an oil executive with Royal Dutch/Shell in the Far East, to a professorship at the London Business School, to chairmanship of the Royal Society of Arts, and finally to his current status as an eminent social philosopher and international business guru.

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Product Description: Twenty-eight women, ranging from Anita Roddick and Prue Leith to less well-known names, write their own personal stories which are accompanied by Elizabeth Handy’s black and white photographs and an introductory essay by Charles Handy...read more
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9780091793586, titled "Reinvented Lives: Women at Sixty: A Celebration" | Random House Uk Ltd, November 1, 2002, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: Twenty-eight women, ranging from Anita Roddick and Prue Leith to less well-known names, write their own personal stories which are accompanied by Elizabeth Handy’s black and white photographs and an introductory essay by Charles Handy.

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9780140135084 | Penguin Uk, January 1, 2001, cover price $15.95

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Product Description: A fascinating and inspirational investigation into the creative and entrepreneurial process.What drives some people to create something from nothing? Is it ambition, the need for self-fulfillment? Is it about money, power, or even genes? Or, is there a mood of the time that encourages people, and can anyone do it?The world needs new ideas, new products, new kinds of associations and institutions, new initiatives, art and designs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780091802158 | Hutchinson, September 1, 2000, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A fascinating and inspirational investigation into the creative and entrepreneurial process.

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Product Description: Celebrated the world over for his gentle wit and keen insight into human behavior, Charles Handy is widely regarded as one of today's best social and business philosophers. This latest collection of Handy's work groups twenty-one of the revered BBC commentator's best essays on why organizations and the people in them behave the way they do...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780787952198 | Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, September 1, 2000, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Celebrated the world over for his gentle wit and keen insight into human behavior, Charles Handy is widely regarded as one of today's best social and business philosophers.

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Product Description: Three hundred years ago, the art of French diplomacy saved nations and enthroned kings. In today's business world, those same princely principles can make or break corporations and launch careers. Written in 1716 by the "envoy extraordinary of Louis XIV," this sage and charming study of the art of negotiation is reputed to be the best manual of diplomatic methods ever written...read more
By Callieres, Charles Handy (introduced by) and A. F. Whyte (trans)
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9780618055128 | Houghton Mifflin, May 1, 2000, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Three hundred years ago, the art of French diplomacy saved nations and enthroned kings.

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Product Description: Organizations are a part of everyday life, whether in schools, hospitals, police stations or commercial companies. In this classics text, Charles Handy argues that the key to successful organizations lies in a better understanding of the needs and motivations of the people within them...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780195087321 | 4th edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, December 2, 1993), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Charles Handy's revolutionary 1989 bestseller The Age of Unreason catapulted him into the ranks of the top management consultants.

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9780140156034 | 4th edition (Penguin USA, June 1, 1999), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Organizations are a part of everyday life, whether in schools, hospitals, police stations or commercial companies.
9780140091106 | Penguin USA, October 1, 1986, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Organizations are a part of everyday life, whether in schools, hospitals, police stations or commercial companies.
9780140809602 | Viking Pr, September 1, 1976, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Seven basic concepts are applied to specific types of organizational problems, and pertinent theoretical literature and source material are surveyed.

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Product Description: An introduction to the techniques of organizational theory within specific voluntary organizations. The author has first-hand experience of these kinds of organizations and has also written "Understanding Organizations". (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780140143386 | Penguin Uk, June 1, 1999, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: An introduction to the techniques of organizational theory within specific voluntary organizations.

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An influential business philosopher and best-selling author offers a series of evocative essays that examine the relationship between belief and action in the workplace and at home. 30,000 first printing. (view table of contents)
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9780787946593 | Reprint edition (Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, March 5, 1999), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: An influential business philosopher and best-selling author offers a series of evocative essays that examine the relationship between belief and action in the workplace and at home.

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Product Description: From one of the world's most respected business and social philosophers, a groundbreaking book that challenges us to question our reliance on traditional definitions of "success" and inspires us to find meaning and fulfillment in our professional, personal and spiritual lives...read more
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9780767901871 | 1 edition (Broadway Books, February 1, 1998), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Identifies the spiritual costs of the Western world's unending quest for affluence and challenges organizations and individuals to seek a higher goal

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9780767901888 | Reprint edition (Broadway Books, January 5, 1999), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: From one of the world's most respected business and social philosophers, a groundbreaking book that challenges us to question our reliance on traditional definitions of "success" and inspires us to find meaning and fulfillment in our professional, personal and spiritual lives.

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Product Description: In an era when change is constant, random, and, as Handy calls it, discontinuous, it is necessary to break out of old ways of thinking in order to use change to our advantage. Handy examines how dramatic changes are transforming business, education, and the nature of work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780875842462 | Harvard Business School Pr, December 1, 1990, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Looks at how changes in technology, work patterns, and social institutions will affect our lives, and argues that change is now less predictable

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9780875843018 | Harvard Business School Pr, February 1, 1998, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In an era when change is constant, random, and, as Handy calls it, discontinuous, it is necessary to break out of old ways of thinking in order to use change to our advantage.

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A collection of essays on the changing organizational environment addresses the need for more flexibility in management and more freedom for employees to work creatively
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9780875846712 | Harvard Business School Pr, January 1, 1996, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays on the changing organizational environment addresses the need for more flexibility in management and more freedom for employees to work creatively

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9780875847634 | Reprint edition (Harvard Business School Pr, January 1, 1998), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays on the changing organizational environment addresses the need for more flexibility in management and more freedom for employees to work creatively

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Product Description: In 'Gods of Management, ' best-selling author Charles Handy uses four Greek gods to illustrate for managers the basic approaches they can use in their own businesses. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780195096163 | 4 sub edition (Oxford Univ Pr, December 28, 1995), cover price $27.50 | About this edition: The author uses four Greek gods--Zeus, Apollo, Athena, and Dionysius--to illustrate the four basic leadership styles managers can adopt and the organizational mentalities that result, showing how firms can find the right style for them.

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9780195096170 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, November 21, 1996), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: In 'Gods of Management, ' best-selling author Charles Handy uses four Greek gods to illustrate for managers the basic approaches they can use in their own businesses.

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Product Description: In this striking sequel to his best-selling book "The Age of Unreason", Charles Handy shows how the changes he predicted are upon us. New developments in technology, radical changes in the global economy, and the relentless pursuit of productivity have altered forever our organizations, our careers, and our lifestyles...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780875844251 | Harvard Business School Pr, March 1, 1994, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Discusses how new developments in technology, global economies, and the pursuit of efficiency have altered organizations, careers, and lifestyles, and argues for the need for a new ethic based on shared power and greater autonomy

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9780875846439 | Harvard Business School Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In this striking sequel to his best-selling book "The Age of Unreason", Charles Handy shows how the changes he predicted are upon us.

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9780882820286, titled "Gods of Management: How Organizations Acquire Their Leaders' Personae" | New Horizon Pr, March 1, 1988, cover price $14.95

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Examines the place of work in society and discusses the possible future development of employment in Great Britain
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9780855206895 | Blackwell Pub, June 1, 1985, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Examines the place of work in society and discusses the possible future development of employment in Great Britain

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Examines the place of work in society and discusses the possible future development of employment in Great Britain
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9780855206888 | Blackwell Pub, April 1, 1985, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Examines the place of work in society and discusses the possible future development of employment in Great Britain

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