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The Hungry Spirit
The Hungry Spirit
Oct 10, 2024 5:21 PM

Author:Charles Handy

The Hungry Spirit

With his characteristically very personal anecdotal style, Charles Handy analyses how materialistic capitalism is self-limiting, how efficiency may be the enemy of a cohesive society, and examines the false certainties of science and religion. Offering a carefully considered and compelling alternative vision, the book challenges the status quo on everything from capitalism and organization to goal-setting and morality. With nods to Kant, Keynes, Sartre and Drucker, The Hungry Spirit is not your usual business tome, but that, of course, is part of Handy's plan.

Reviews

The Hungry Spirit is the distillation of a lifetime’s experience, a personal recipe for what we have to do to survive in a capitalist society.

—— People Management

The Hungry Spirit is a wide-ranging examination of business and social problems … shrewd, scholarly, thoughtful analysis.

—— Modern Management

Charles Handy is Britain’s only world-class management guru.

—— Director

Elegant in its simplicity and practicality. Lee has distilled many powerful leadership strategies into the lessons many of us learned as children. They are no less relevant to our working lives. At its core, Creating Magic is a collection of stories that reminds us to demonstrate care and respect for every member of the team and to focus our efforts not our ourselves but on the people we lead.

—— George Bodenheimer, President, ESPN, Inc and ABC Sports

The Go-Giver is the best business parable since The Greatest Salesman in the World and The One Minute Manager

—— Pat Williams, author of Souls of Steel, and senior vice president, Orlando Magic

The Go-Giver is one of those rare books that entertains with a great storyline while simultaneously delivering an uplifting, life-affirming message that we can apply immediately

—— Darren Richardson, author of Science of Mind

A lovely reminder to us all that the world is abundant and rewards those who act with a generosity of spirit

—— Lois P. Frankel, PhD, author of See Jane Lead and Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office

This is great for anyone planning a speech or trying to get their message across at work

—— Psychologies

The Heaths push beyond what sounds like it should work and explain why it actually does

—— Time Magazine

... an entertaining, practical guide to effective communication.

—— Publishers Weekly

Smart, lively . . . such fun to read

—— Saturday Guardian

Anyone interested in influencing others ... can learn from this book

—— The Washington Post
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