Philosopher and management thinker who coined the phrase \u2018portfolio\u2019 career, and believed companies should retain their humanity<\/p>\n
For a country that prides itself on its professional and financial services sector, the UK has produced remarkably few world-ranking management and organisational thinkers. At the very top of that pile, however, is Charles Handy, the writer and social philosopher \u2013 his preferred designation \u2013 who has died aged 92.<\/p>\n
As both a thinker and educator, Handy was unusual. Although a professor \u2013 he was a founding faculty member of the London Business School (LBS), the UK\u2019s first graduate business school, in the 1960s \u2013 he never followed the conventional path, ploughing a narrow furrow and publishing in specialist journals.<\/p>\n
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