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The Age of Paradox
by Charles Handy
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press (1995-09)
ISBN: 0875846432
EAN: 9780875846439
Dewy Decimal #: 658
Paperback: 320 pages
SKU: BX032-061219009
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: Clean and shiny. Very minor wear, near new. Spine uncreased, pgs crisp, clean, tight, unmarked. No remainder mark.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
In an age of numbingly rapid change, one of the most brilliant and engaging thinkers of our day extends a guiding hand in the search for order. Ranging widely over business, family, education, citizenship, money, relationships, and other subjects, the author of The Age of Unreason proposes bold ideas for navigating through this brave new world.
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Customer Reviews
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Must Read for Leaders
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-03-21
Handy, one of he world's foremost business philosophers, provides an important work that all leaders must read or at minimum acknowledge the concepts he espouses. As a leadership writer and instructor, Handy's work is a staple for my students. His chapters on the Sigmoid Curve and Doughnut are alone worth the price of the book.
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The paradox: the presence of the myth in the Post Industrial Society!
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-10-04
2 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
The zealous analysis of the human behavior, the hidden clues conferred by the unconscious philosophy inserted in the myths, the absolute domain of the evolution of the paradigms, the constant and growing application in almost every one of our tangible and intangible systems and procedures around the knowledge 's universe, plus the prodigious imagination of Charles Handy has produced this admirable intelligent and audacious text that breaks the barriers of the conventional thinking around the well know managements issues.
All the organizations are supported unconsciously by ancient and similar facts immersed in the history. Handy has rethought, confirmed and carved in relief a magnificent example of what intelligence means: to reorder and focus from different angles the essential principles that underlie beneath the complexity and the increasing competitiveness of the modern world.
In this order of ideas, Handy plans and puts on the table of the leonine executive 's mind new proposals, demolishing certain behavior patterns that remain such authentic mental barriers. The paradoxes as well as the myths don' t pretend erect as perpetual life' s lessons, because this attitude would reveal precisely he rationalization of the mythical fact. Handy opposes the reality against the illusion of the reality and unmasks certain learned and absorbed models that we ten to assume as unerring. The paradoxes ' intention, in last instance is unbalance to rebalance, but you as manager is the only who can do it if you process the information and redistributes the iron laws in search of your role.
Innovation is simply an intelligent transformation, and this book bets for that device.
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It baffles me how the book is so highly rated
Rating  (1)
Date: 2001-04-15
7 out of 21 customers found this reveiw helpful
It has virtually a few pages of sense that can be put into practice, and have any value. I may be influenced by, my privilege of having lived in England from the mid seventies thru early eighties. He particularly acknowledges the former Labor Party, Tony Benn. This "socialist" even frightened moderate laborites of its time. Another one of those he acknowlges is former Vice President Al Gore, and for Mayor of New York, Mayor Dinkins. As a resident and taxpayer of New York, I know the true David Dinkins ! He correctly points out that Microsoft Corporation is merely "intelectual Property". I agree with him. Later on, he rambles on that ownership of Corporations and business's should be overhauled. We can all learn from Japan and Germany, and without Japan the US Auto Industry would still be producing thousands upon thousands of junk. However, his reasons that British and American Society should adapt the German and Japanese systems are a joke. In reality, much which was implemented in the 80's in both UK and US is now hurriedly being copied in Germany. His Chinese Contract is not even worth the time to comment on it ! Other than a few pages of real practicality and common sense, this book is nothing more than left wing rambling and nonsense He says it is about time we paid the third world a fair price for their trees. I insist must replant trees, we must reduce the amount of paper we comsume. Culprits must not get off the hook. This,in my opinion, is essential whatever ones political beliefs. This paperback is about 320 pages. It is a pity so many trees have to be torn down and the end result is this junk
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Refreshing and challenging
Rating  (4)
Date: 2000-11-20
3 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
I read this for an MA course. Since Handy lives in Great Britain, he has a wonderfully refreshing view of leadership and political life (and how they work together). I'm so glad I read this book. It's conclusions are challenging but make sense.
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Excellent Read for the MBA student!
Rating (5)
Date: 2000-05-05
4 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
Handy does an excellent job of defining key business and personal paradoxes. The best section was on the intellectual paradox which future managers need to know how to anticipate and deal with.
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