Myself and Other More Important Matters

Myself and Other More Important Matters
by Charles B. Handy

Myself and Other More Important Matters
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Author: Charles B. Handy
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-02-28
ISBN: 0814401732
Number of pages: 213
Publisher: AMACOM/American Management Association

Book Reviews of Myself and Other More Important Matters

Book Review: Relevant for changing times.
Summary: 5 Stars

I recently read this book on a weekend retreat at the Canoe Bay Resort in northern Wisconsin. The library there featured "Myself and Other More Important Matters". I picked the book and found that it was easy to digest over a weekend and I recommend it. It is full of rich perspective and inspiring stories and relates well to the times we are in. Charles Handy's messages are relevant to architects and designers as well as their clients. I am giving this book to several friends.
James P. Cramer

Summary of Myself and Other More Important Matters

One of the world's most influential living management thinkers, Charles Handy has year-after-year been listed alongside business gurus including Peter Drucker and Tom Peters in the prestigious Thinkers 50 list. His views on management -- and life -- have inspired and enlightened others for decades. Now, in Myself and Other More Important Matters, the bestselling author of books including The Age of Unreason shares his special brand of wisdom, giving readers uncommon insight into business and careers...as well as the choices we all have to make in our lives.

Handy draws on the lessons of his own experience to help readers move beyond the facts they learned in business school and reflect on their own individual management style. With the "philosophical elegance and eloquence" Warren Bennis has described as his trademark, Handy discusses how one should develop one's career goals in line with personal values and sense of ethics. Handy entertainingly recounts what he's discovered along his own international journey: from lessons his father taught him growing up in Ireland.to what he learned in Borneo in his days working for Royal Dutch Shell. to Italy, where he bought and fixed up an old house in Tuscany.all the way to America, where recent corporate scandals have shaken our understanding of what is ethical and acceptable.

Throughout the book, Handy asks us to look at the role of work in our life, and what we truly find fulfilling. It is hard to imagine a better or wiser guide to work -- and life's -- big questions.

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