Tom Peters
Product Description
From the Publisher
From the Back Cover
If you put a frog in cold water and slowly heat it, the frog will eventually let itself be boiled to death. We, too, will not survive if we don't respond to the radical way in which the world is changing. From now on, success and happiness will depend on an understanding of the boiled frog, and other concepts described in this bestselling book:
-Upside-Down Thinking
-Personal Re-Framing
-Telecommuting
-The Electric Shamrock
-The Triple I Organization
-The Inverted Doughnut
-Horizontal Fast-Tracking
-Portfolio Marriages
In The Age of Unreason Britain's foremost business guru provides an inspiring vision of an era of new discoveries, new enlightenment and new freedoms. It is a book to turn your understanding of the world on its head.
About the Author
Charles Handy is an independent writer, broadcaster and teacher. He has been an oil executive, an economist, a professor at the London Business School, the Warden of St George's House in Windsor Castle and the Chairman of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce.
He was born in Kildare in Ireland, the son of an Archdeacon, and educated in Ireland, England (Oxford University) and the USA (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
His many books include The Empty Raincoat, Understanding Organizations, Gods of Management, The Future of Work and Waiting for the Mountain to Move.
He and his wife Elizabeth live in London and Norfolk.
