Book description
Bookseller Charles Handy's best-selling new book looks at how
individuals (the fleas in his analogy) relate to multi-national
conglomerates (the elephants). In addition to addressing how and why we
work today, he covers a wide range of preoccupations and issues
including the increasing fear of big business: 'it is easy to see why
many observers think that the big corporations are now both richer and
more powerful than many nation states. They worry that these new
corporate states are accountable to no-one - that their financial clout
makes governments beholden to them ... The elephants, people feel, are
out of control.' Charles Handy is a writer and broadcaster. His books,
including The Empty Raincoat, have sold over one million copies around
the world. He was named as Business Columnist of the Year in 1994. He
has been, in his time, an oil executive, a business economist, a
Professor at the London Business School, and Chairman of the Royal
Society of Arts.
