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6 unusual facts about Charles Handy


Charles Handy

When the Harvard Business Review had a special issue to mark their 50th Anniversary they asked Handy, Peter Drucker and Henry Mintzberg to write special articles.

Their son Scott Handy is an actor who has played with the RSC.

Among the ideas he has advanced are the "portfolio worker" and the "Shamrock Organization" (in which professional core workers, freelance workers and part-time/temporary routine workers each form one leaf of the "Shamrock").

He has Honorary Doctorates from Bristol Polytechnic (now the University of the West of England), UEA, Essex, Durham, Queen's University Belfast and the University of Dublin.

Johari window

Charles Handy calls this concept the Johari House with four rooms.

Organizational culture

Charles Handy (1976), popularized Roger Harrison (1972) with linking organizational structure to organizational culture.


Global Peter Drucker Forum

Speakers at the conference included the philosopher Charles Handy, Harvard professor Rakesh Khurana, daughter of the late C.K. Prahalad and author Deepa Prahalad, director and founder of the Legatum Centre at MIT Iqbal Quadir, Adrian Wooldridge of The Economist.


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