Charles Handy

Charles Brian Handy, CBE (25 July 1932 – 13 December 2024) was an Irish author and philosopher. His works focused in organizational behavior and management. Handy was the chairman of the Royal Society of Arts from 1987 to 1989. 

Handy died on 13 December 2024 at his home in London, England at the age of 92.

Books
Handy wrote:

Understanding Organisations (1976) – .
Gods of Management (1978) – .
The Future of Work (1984)
Understanding Schools (1986)
Understanding Voluntary Organisations (1988) .
The Age of Unreason (1989) – .
Inside Organisations (1990)
The Empty Raincoat (1994) – . US printing under title The Age of Paradox (1994) – .
Waiting for the Mountain to Move (1995)
Beyond Certainty (1995) – .
The Hungry Spirit (1997) – .
New Alchemists (1999) – .
Thoughts for the Day (1999) – . – (first published in 1991 as Waiting for the Mountain to Move)
The Elephant and the Flea (2001) – .
A Journey through Tea – with Elizabeth Handy
Re-invented lives (2002)
Myself and Other More Important Matters (2006) – an autobiography and further reflections on life – .
The New Philanthropists (2006)
21 Ideas for Managers (2000) .
The Second Curve (2015) .

Legacy
About [the phrase], Second curve: Handy coined the phrase [or is known to have started the phrase], according to an article in Bangkok Post (2025).https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/general/3064056/reinvention-in-the-second-curve-era?tbref=hp. Retrieved 2025-07-06

References

Other websites

BBC Biography of Charles Handy.
Biography at the Thinkers 50 . 2005. 

Category:1932 births
Category:2024 deaths
Category:Irish philosophers
Category:Irish academics
Category:Writers from Dublin