The new alchemists
By: Charles Handy ; photographed by Elizabeth Handy
Contributors: Handy, Elizabeth
Publisher: Hutchinson
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780091799953
Subjects: Entrepreneurship; Creative ability; Businesspeople; Biography; Successful people
Description: This text examines in words and pictures the way particular individuals, like Anita Roddick, have created businesses and careers from nothing but their own drive and talent.
Table of contents: title: The nature of alchemy; title: The seeds of alchemy; title: Growing more alchemists; title: The new alchemists; title: William Atkinson (Phoenix School); title: Robert Ayling (British Airways' New Head Office); title: Trevor Baylis (inventor); title: Ozwald Boateng (tailor); title: Richard Branson (Virgin); title: Terence Conran (design/restaurants); title: Dee Dawson (first anorexic clinic); title: Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod (theatre director and designer-Cheek by Jowl); title: Charles Dunstone (Carphone Warehouse); title: Rose Fenton and Lucy Neal (London International Festival of Theatre); title: Sabrina Guinness (Youth Culture TV); title: Philip Hughes (painter and Logica); title: Andy Law (St Luke's Advertising Agency); title: Martin Leach (Magazine Publisher); title: Mapi Lucchesi (Lucchesi-translation business); title: Jayesh Manek (investment management); title: Andrew Mawson (Bromley-by-Bow centre and Community Action Network-CAN); title: Joanne McFarlane (Silk Scarves); title: John McLaren (Masterprize composers' competition); title: Julia Middleton (Common Purpose); title: Geoff Mulgan (Demos Think Tank); title: Julian Richer (entrepreneur); title: Dennis Stevenson (company chairman and The New Tate); title: Jane Tewson (Comic Relief and Pilotlight); title: Tim Waterstone (Waterstone's bookstores); title: Stephen Woodhams (Woodhams-landscape designs); title: Michael Young (School for Social Entrepreneurs et al.)