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The Elephant and the Flea

Paperback (07 Nov 2002)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Bookseller Charles Handy's best-selling new book looks at how individuals (the fleas in his analogy) relate to multi-national conglomerates (the elephants). In addition to addressing how and why we work today, he covers a wide range of preoccupations and issues including the increasing fear of big business: 'it is easy to see why many observers think that the big corporations are now both richer and more powerful than many nation states. They worry that these new corporate states are accountable to no-one - that their financial clout makes governments beholden to them ... The elephants, people feel, are out of control.'

About the Publisher

Random House Business Books

Random House Business Books boasts some of the best-known and most widely respected works and authors in business book publishing, from Jim Collins (Good to Great and How the Mighty Fall), via Ram Charan and Larry Bossidy (Execution) to Chris Anderson (The Long Tail and Free). It includes books on leadership and management (for example, Allan Leighton's On Leadership and Tough Calls), titles on economics (Alex Brummer's The Crunch), and works on business skills (Chip and Dan Heath's Made to Stick and Switch).

Book information

ISBN: 9780099415657
Publisher: Random House
Imprint: Random House Business Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 306.0905
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 233
Weight: 174g
Height: 197mm
Width: 129mm
Spine width: 16mm