Reviews for Beyond equilibrium theory

The average rating for Beyond equilibrium theory based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-01-20 00:00:00 Benoit Legare Charles Handy is an understated sort of person. He writes of values, is modest about his own achievements, and is thoughtful and considerate about the place of business in our world. This might well be a recipe for flakey ideas based on weak logic, but somehow he manages to bring together ideas, reality and facts and produce thought provoking substance. This set of essays was first published in 1995, but they are as relevant today as they were then. This may reflect the slowness of change in the world of work, but it may also show a level of prescience in his thinking that we should have given more attention to at the time. The essays cover a lot of ground: the changing relationship between employers and employees, the role of business in society, and new portfolio based career structures, among other things. All are short snippets, making the book easy to pick at rather than take as a straight front to back read.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-02-15 00:00:00 Dan Roggers Handy's ideas on portfolio employment becoming more prevalent and large office spaces becoming entirely unnecessary except for meetings were scarily prescient. However, the fear of and respect for Japanese business culture seems baffling; one wonders if 25 years from now people will be similarly baffled by our current fear of China.