Charles Handy Quotes

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• Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning.

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  Change, Growth, Synonym

  Charles Handy (2012). “The Age Of Unreason”, p.4, Random House

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• The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world-not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.

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  People, Giving, Work Out

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• We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.

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  Inspiring, Fire, Light

  Charles Handy (1995). “The Age of Paradox”, Harvard Business Press

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• To learn anything other than the stuff you find in books, you need to be able to experiment, to make mistakes, to accept feedback, and to try again. It doesn't matter whether you are learning to ride a bike or starting a new career, the cycle of experiment, feedback, and new experiment is always there.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Mistake

  Charles Handy (2008). “The Hungry Spirit: New Thinking for a New World”, p.134, Random House

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• You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

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  Standing Out, Boxes, Outside The Box

  Charles B. Handy (2003). “The Elephant and the Flea: Reflections of a Reluctant Capitalist”, p.109, Harvard Business Press

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• A leader shapes and shares a vision, which gives point to the work of others.

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  Giving, Leader, Vision

  Charles Handy (2012). “The Age Of Unreason”, p.106, Random House

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• The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.

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  Challenges, Inspire, Want

  Charles Handy (2012). “The Age Of Unreason”, p.7, Random House

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• The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are- bald or old or fat or poor, successful or struggling- when you don't feel the need to apologize for anything or to deny anything. To be comfortable in your own skin is the beginning of strength.

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  Strength, Struggle, Successful

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• The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.

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  Real, Learning, People

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• A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human prison.

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  Team, Successful, Supportive

  Charles Handy (2000). “Twenty-One Ideas for Managers: Practical Wisdom for Managing Your Company and Yourself”, Jossey-Bass

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• Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by stepping into uncertainty and by trying, within this uncertainty, to create your own islands of security....The new security will be a belief that ...if this doesn't work out you could do something else. You are your own security.

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  Islands, Work Out, Trying

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• In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property.

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  Community, Purpose, Pieces

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• We need to have faith in the future to make sense of the present.

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  Needs, Have Faith, Make Sense

  Charles B. Handy (1994). “The Empty Raincoat: Making Sense of the Future”, Random House Business Books

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• We are all prisoners of our past. It is hard to think of things except in the way we have always thought of them. But that solves no problems and seldom changes anything.

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  Past, Thinking, Way

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• Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.

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  Business, Creativity, Needs

  Charles Handy (2008). “The Hungry Spirit: New Thinking for a New World”, p.35, Random House

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• Some of my unhappiest moments have been in organizations. Somehow it seems to be quite respectable to do things in organizations that you would never do in private life. I have had people insult me to my face in front of colleagues. I have had my feelings rammed down my throat on the pretext that it would do me good. I have been required to do things which I didn't agree with because the organization wished it... In my worst moments I have thought organizations were places designed to be run by sadists and staffed by masochists.

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  Running, Communication, Worst Moments

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• If there is one general law of communication it is that we never communicate as effectively as we think we do.

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  Communication, Thinking, Law

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• Learning is experience understood in tranquility.

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  Learning, Tranquility, Understood

  Charles B. Handy (1998). “Beyond Certainty: The Changing Worlds of Organizations”, p.155, Harvard Business Press

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• Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.

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  Life, Differences, Making A Difference

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• A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

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  Helping Others, People, Want

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• Purpose, pattern, and people, the three P's at the heart of life.

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  Heart, People, Fortune Cookie

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• Most of us prefer to walk backward into the future, a posture that may be uncomfortable but which at least allows us to keep on looking at familiar things as long as we can.

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  Teaching, Long, May

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• We learn by reflecting on what has happened. The process seldom works in reverse, although most educational processes assume that it does. We hope that we can teach people how to live before they live, or how to manage before they manage.

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  Educational, Learning, People

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• Creativity is born of chaos, even if it is somewhat difficult to glimpse the possibilities in the midst of the confusion.

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  Creativity, Confusion, Glimpse

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• Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child

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  Children, Learning, School

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