The Hungry Spirit: New Thinking for a New World - Softcover

"The Hungry Spirit is the distillation of a lifetime’s experience, a personal recipe for what we have to do to survive in a capitalist society." (People Management)

"The Hungry Spirit is a wide-ranging examination of business and social problems ... shrewd, scholarly, thoughtful analysis." (Modern Management)

"Charles Handy is Britain’s only world-class management guru." (Director)

With his characteristically very personal anecdotal style, Charles Handy analyses how materialistic capitalism is self-limiting, how efficiency may be the enemy of a cohesive society, and examines the false certainties of science and religion. Offering a carefully considered and compelling alternative vision, the book challenges the status quo on everything from capitalism and organization to goal-setting and morality. With nods to Kant, Keynes, Sartre and Drucker, The Hungry Spirit is not your usual business tome, but that, of course, is part of Handy's plan.