Product Description

‘The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be…We can and should be in charge of our own destinies in a time of change.’ If you put a frog in water and slowly heat it, the frog will eventually let itself be boiled to death. We, too, will not survive unless we actively respond to the radical way our world is changing. Find out about the Boiled Frog and other concepts that will turn your understanding of the world on its head and change the way you work and live: -Upside-Down personal thinking -Personal Re-framing -Telecommuting -The Electronic Shamrock -The Inverted Doughnut -Horizontal Fast-tracking -Portfolio Marriages

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #49316 in Books
• Published on: 2002-02-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 232 pages

Tom Peters
‘His lucid, exciting, shocking descriptions...thrust us one giant step closer to understanding the new, “upside-down” competitive realities.’

From the Publisher
Thinking the unlikely and doing the unreasonable - Charles Handy presents his vision of changing relations in the spheres of commerce and the workplace, providing original and thought-provoking advice to the employee and the employer.

About the Author
Charles Handy is an author and broadcaster living in London. He is a Fellow at the London Business School where he was a professor for many years. His books have sold over one million copies around the world. He has been, in his time, an oil executive, a business economist, a professor, and Chairman of the Royal Society of Arts.