num_pages: 288
description: In an era when change is constant, random, and, as Handy calls it, discontinuous, it is necessary to break out of old ways of thinking in order to use change to our advantage. Handy examines how dramatic changes are transforming business, education, and the nature of work. We can see it in astounding new developments in technology, in the shift in demand from manual to cerebral skills, and in the virtual disappearance of lifelong, full-time jobs. Handy maintains that discontinuous change requires discontinuous, upside-down thinking, and discusses the need for new kinds of organizations, new approaches to work, new types of schools, and new ideas about the nature of our society.
language: English
title: The Age of Unreason
titlecomplete: The Age of Unreason
genres: Society, Nonfiction, Self Help, Philosophy, Cultural, Management, Buisness, Leadership, Business
ratings_count: 528
publisher: Harvard Business Review Press