MYSELF AND OTHER MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS

Charles Handy is perhaps best known outside the business world as a wise and war
m presenter of Radio 4's "Thought for the Day". Long recognised as one of the wo
rld's leading business thinkers (over a million copies of his books have been so
ld around the world), in "Myself and Other More Important Matters" he leaves the
management territory he has so effectively and influentially mapped in the past
to explore the wider issues and dilemmas - both moral and creative - raised by
the turning points of his long and successful life. Here he investigates the big
issues of how life can best be lived as they have emerged from the unfolding of
his life and his unique and influential understanding of what really matters.



From supplying oil by boat to an area larger than England as a bullish young S
hell executive in Borneo to realising that there was a big difference between de
scribing the development of a 'portfolio' life (made up of a variety of activiti
es for a range of purposes and pay) in theory and actually himself leaving behin
d full-time employment, from helping to start up the London and Open business sc
hools to listening and talking to people all over the world about how they want
to manage their lives, Handy's telling of his experiences proves both revealing
and significant.