An empty raincoat is a symbol. In this rapidly changing world, the competition is becoming increasingly fierce. Organizations represented by enterprises are busy trying to survive in the fierce competition, so they become more and more mechanical and inhuman, forcing employees to work more and more long hours. However, in order to survive and develop in fierce competition, individuals have to be exhausted. In fact, many people have little free space except work, even weekends and holidays are spent in the company. For them, life is to complete one task after another that can never be completed. The empty raincoat symbolizes the most pressing contradiction of our time.

"S-shaped curve" of Charles Handy's new reform

Charles Handy's "Empty Raincoat" (also translated as "Awakening Times") puts forward three management thought frames in "Awakening Times": one is the "S curve" of implementing new changes while continuing to grow, the other is the "doughnut principle" of balancing what to do and what to do, and the third is the "China contract" of making full use of win-win art.

Handy graduated from Oxford University, and studied under the masters of bennis, Shane, Achilles, etc. at the Si Long School of Management of MIT. He taught at London Business School, served as a consultant to BP and chairman of the Royal Association for the Promotion of Arts and Commerce.

Renmin University of China Press has published a number of Charles Handy's works, including The Thinker, The Awakening Age, The Hungry Soul, The Future of Individuals and Organizations, The Future of Work and Life, Made by Managers, The Concept of Organizations, On Masters, etc.

Charles Handy's comprehensive life

In the time allocation of their combined life, he and his wife Elizabeth allocate 65,438+050 days each year for pure creative work, writing and photography, as well as related reading and research, 65,438+000 days for business and management activities, basically giving a lecture tour abroad, and then spending 30 days doing various voluntary work, in addition to 85 days of free time, which can be used for weekly rest and dealing with emergencies. This arrangement is very good.

Handy is no less interested in politics and society than in management. He is an ordinary scholar. His works in his later years are a combination of market economy, corporate culture and humanitarian views, advocating profit in a low voice and respecting people in a high voice. In recent years, he has been discussing: 2 1 century, what kind of work style and lifestyle is most suitable for society? Handy's life experience in western society convinced him that individual freedom and independence should be balanced with wealth sharing and social justice. Handy is not only a master of management, but also a humanist.