The empty raincoat : making sense of the future / Charles Handy.
By: Handy, Charles B.
Material type: BookPublisher: London : Hutchinson, 1994Description: viii, 280 p. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 0091780225 :.Subject(s): Work -- Forecasting | Social predictionDDC classification: 658.4Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 658.4 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00021509 |
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Bibliography: p. 273-275 - Includes index.
The story behind the book -- Part One: In the dark wood: Confused by Paradox -- We are not where we hoped to be -- The paradoxes of our times -- Part Two: Finding the balance: Pathways through paradox -- The sigmoid curve -- The doughnut principle -- The chinese contract -- Part Three: Practising the preaching: Managing paradox -- The federalist idea -- Twin Citizenship -- Subsidiarity -- The meaning of business -- The corporate contract -- The membership business -- Redesigning life -- Working time -- Spliced lives -- A state of justice -- The intelligence investment -- The new scorecard -- Part Four: The search for meaning -- Making sense of paradox -- The three senses -- A sense of continuity -- A sense of connection -- A sense of direction.