Charles Handy: We've been seduced by the curse of efficiency

摘要

Charles Handy admits he hasn’t held many commanding positions, except for a 10-year stint as a Shell executive and what he rather modestly describes as “once”running the executive MBA programme - the first of its kind in Europe - at LondonBusiness School.While he might consider his experience of corporate management to be sparse, hisinfluence on the way we think about it has been huge.Over the past five decades, Handy’s philosophical - at times polemic - managementbooks have anticipated the dominance of telecoms, the rise of portfolio careers andcalled for ownership models that ditch shareholders in favour of more communitycentricmodels. Handy, now in his late eighties, talks to Management Today aboutwhat management feels like, the next workplace trend and why leaders would benefitfrom doing a drama course.