Summary for Charles Handy’s book, The Age of Unreason, appearing in Soundview Executive Book Summaries. The summary begins by describing how people are entering what Handy calls an Age of Unreason, where change has no reason and being unreasonable is, increasingly, a survival skill. This new era is a time of both great risk and great opportunity, and will be coupled with a desire for mental rather than manual skills in organizations. The document goes on to state that this new era can be coped with by perceiving change as both inevitable and a new learning experience, and highlights the development of new organizational structures in the world, such as shamrocks and inverted doughnuts. These new organizational models will be accompanied by a changing concept of career, which will pass through several distinct phases in a person's life.
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Summary by Charles Handy on his book, The Age of Unreason, appearing in Soundview Executive Book Summaries, 1990; Charles Handy Papers; Box 19, Folder 1; 1 page
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