In 2001 Charles Handy was credited as the world’s second-most influential management thinker (after Peter Drucker). He is widely recognised as Europe’s most influential social and management philosopher.
Handy was born in 1932 in County Kildare, Ireland. He was educated in England, first at Bromsgrove School as a boarder and at Oriel College, University of Oxford, where he graduated with first-class honours. He is married to his business partner, Elizabeth Handy, and they have two children. Handy’s father was an Irish Protestant minister and influenced one of his most reputable books, The Gods of Management (1978), and his theory of the shamrock organisation (the shamrock being synonymous with St Patrick as a symbol of the Holy Trinity).
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