Inside Organizations : 21 Ideas for Managers

by Charles B. Handy, Gray Jolliffe (Illustrator)

Throughout a long and distinguished career, Charles Handy has spent much of his time observing organizations and the behaviour of the people in them. Based on this rich experience, "Inside Organizations" is Handy's personal anthology of twenty-one ideas which will change the way people see their world, and help them to organize it better. It contains anecdotes, commentary and questions which challenge the reader and help them apply each idea to their particular situation whether they work in a large corporation, a school, a hospital, or a restaurant. Light-hearted yet profound, this Penguin edition of "Inside Organizations" will have a broad general appeal, complementing Handy's outstandingly successful work "Understanding Organizations".

Genres: Business, Management

240 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1992

About the author

Charles Brian Handy was an Irish author and philosopher who specialised in organizational behavior and management. Among the ideas he advanced are the "portfolio career" and the "shamrock organization" (in which professional core workers, freelance workers and part-time/temporary routine workers each form one leaf of the "shamrock").
Handy was rated among the Thinkers 50, a private list of the most influential living management thinkers. In 2001, he was second on this list, behind Peter Drucker, and in 2005, he was tenth. When the Harvard Business Review had a special issue to mark the publication's 50th anniversary Handy, Peter Drucker, and Henry Mintzberg were asked to write special articles.
In July 2006, Handy was conferred with an honorary Doctor of Law by Trinity College Dublin.

Reviews

[Javier Sastre · Rating 3 out of 5]

Está un poco desfasado (sobre todo en convenciones y comportamientos sociales) pero me ha aportado algunas buenas ideas que, sin duda, siguen siendo perfectamente válidas.
La manera de entender el trabajo, las organizaciones y las personas dentro de ellas es bastante visionario respecto a lo que habría de venir décadas después: empresas centradas en actividades clave y en subcontratar las que no lo sean, trabajo por proyectos y trabajos a tiempo parcial, organizaciones para el aprendizaje, teletrabajo, enfoque en el cliente - externo e interno -, ejercer la influencia, etc

[Cristián Gaymer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Definitely Handy is one of my favourites.

I loved The Hungry Spirit, I had waited so long for a book willing to go further, to a more philosophic aproach on life and business.

This one is also one of those books with a bit for ourselves, for our lives. Not only the office.