The View from Ninety - Reflections on How to Live a Long, Contented Life

Charles Handy is one of the giants of contemporary thought. His books on management - including Understanding Organizations and Gods of Management - have changed the way we view business. His work on broader issues and trends - such as Beyond Certainty and The Second Curve - has changed the way we view society. In his new book, Handy, looking back over a rich and varied life, shares the lessons he has learned along the way. What things really matter? What daily worries should we learn to treat as unimportant? How do we become more accepting of ourselves and of those around us? How do we discover purpose in our everyday existence? Clear-eyed and optimistic by turns, he sets out the questions that everyone needs to ask themselves in the course of their lives, and points us in the direction of the answers.

About the author

Charles Handy was a writer, broadcaster and teacher, as well as a former oil executive, an economist, a professor at the London Business School, the Warden of St. George's House in Windsor Castle and the chairman of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. He was born in Co. Kildare in Ireland, the son of an archdeacon, and educated in Ireland, England (Oxford University) and the USA (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). His many books include The Empty Raincoat, Gods of Management, The Second Curve and 21 Letters.

Charles Handy died on 13 December 2024 at the age of 92. The View from Ninety, his final book, draws on articles first published in The Idler magazine.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Handy, Handy Charles
• Publisher: Bantam UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 12.06.2025
• EAN: 9781529154801
• ISBN: 978-1-5291-5480-1
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 214 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Business and Management, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Memoirs, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, Business & management, Ethics & moral philosophy, Popular philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs