The Elephant And The Flea

Author : Charles B. Handy
Publisher : Random House Business Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elephant and the Flea written by Charles B. Handy and published by Random House Business Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Gates predicts that by 2050, 50% of the working population will work at home. Even in England in 2000 the DoE recorded 20% of British workers spend a portion of the week working at home... Life in the future - in 2021 - will be CHUNKY. Intense and demanding projects will alternate with 'sabbaticals' - some paid for by organizations, others self-funded. In this new work, Charles Handy, the brilliant social philosopher and management guru, examines the questions that face us at the start of a new age. Using the metaphor of the "Elephant and the Flea he discusses the future of everything from education, work and marriage, to capitalism, management, religion and society. He carefully considers the balancing act that both individuals (fleas) and larger organizations (elephants) will face in the next twenty years. Increasingly technological advances mean the disappearance of the middle - or disintermediation. This means that many careers will radically transform or vanish altogether in the coming decades. If vacationers can go on-line to access all their travel information they won't need travel agents. If a patient can access a diagnosis on the net, and purchase medication through a dot.com drug store, then the need for doctors will plummet. Handy explores the significance of the vast changes we can expect, and those already here, brought about by the democratic power of the internet. He suggests that many people will learn to develop a portfolio career, expecting to change directions dramatically throughout their lives. A multitude of fleas - consultants, suppliers, sub-contractors, and advisers - will support larger organizations, without being full-time employees. Theoffice, Handy predicts, will become more of a club house, with luxurious meeting rooms, gyms, and even overnight accommodations. And that transformation will change even the look of our city skylines.

Author : Helga Aichinger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780689200014
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elephant, the Mouse, and the Flea written by Helga Aichinger and published by . This book was released on 1967-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Helga Aichinger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780689200014
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elephant, the Mouse and the Flea written by Helga Aichinger and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Handy
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1407073508
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elephant And The Flea written by Charles Handy and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.'

Author : Cathy Blacksmith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781490772042
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elephant and the Flea written by Cathy Blacksmith and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Elephant and the Flea is about being kind to others, no matter their size, skin color, or ethnicity. It's about making friends and helping those in need.

Author : Glenn Goree
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532602324
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Flea, the Minnow, the Elephant, and the Whale written by Glenn Goree and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A minnow and a whale. A flea and an elephant. Can this assortment of unlikely creatures assist us with the spiritual conflicts we face everyday? Yes. By presenting Biblical truths in parable form. Humorous but pithy stories told by these four unique characters offer insight into the words of the Apostle Paul in II Corinthians 4:18. "So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For the seen is temporary, while what is unseen is eternal."

Author : Aichinger H Staff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571101801
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elephant Mouse and the Flea written by Aichinger H Staff and published by . This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dr. Lucille Hilliard
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 1977274552
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elegant Elephant, Fly and Flea written by Dr. Lucille Hilliard and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will assist children in understanding and knowing how to deal with bullying, peer pressure and friendship.

Author : Charles B. Handy
Publisher : Reflection of a Reluctant Capi
ISBN 13 : 9781591391289
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elephant and the Flea written by Charles B. Handy and published by Reflection of a Reluctant Capi. This book was released on 2003 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this poignant personal memoir, which is also a reflection on the past and future of world capitalism, retired oil executive/economist/guru Handy takes us on his life's journey, looking back to such topics as his childhood and education and how they prepared (or, rather, did not prepare) him for a career in business; the changing nature of organizational life within the old economy and the new; the great variety of capitalism around the world; and, through it all, his struggle to find meaning and fulfillment in work. Handy uses the metaphor of the elephant and the flea to critique the great shift from the prevalence of behemoth, slow-moving, bureaucratic organizations that provided a lifetime of security and not much freedom, to a world in which we are much more independent, flitting from job to job, latching onto elephants when we need to, but mostly flying solo and without safe havens.--From publisher description.

Author : C. Strenger
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023011766X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fear of Insignificance written by C. Strenger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how, after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the Gospel of the free market became the only world-religion of universal validity. The belief that all value needs to be quantifiable was extended to human beings, whose value became dependent on their rating on the various ranking-scales in the global infotainment system.