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Charles Handy, management thinker and author, 1932-2024

Writer provided prescient and provocative insights into the world of work
Charles Handy: He long pursued an Aristotelian quest for ‘eudaemonia’, or fulfilment, which he interpreted as ‘doing the best at what you’re best at’

Author, thinker and public speaker Charles Handy, who died on Friday, aged 92, was one of the few non-Americans to merit the description “management guru”.

It was a term he disliked, preferring the tag “social philosopher”. Handy favoured counselling over consulting for leaders and his chosen method was “Socratic dialogue”. It often took place over a meal at one of his homes in Putney or Norfolk, to which he and his wife Elizabeth invited interesting thinkers, writers and business people.

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