确实，这些词语可谓精准，正是我在读查尔斯·汉迪先生作品时的真实感受，一字一句，充满了禅宗的味道，读起来让人格外的清爽，又陷入于无尽的思考。查尔斯·汉迪(Charles Handy)（1932-2024），1932年出生于爱尔兰的一个神职家庭，可以说是欧洲最伟大的管理思想大师。英国《金融时报》称他是欧洲屈指可数的“最像管理哲学家”的人，并把他评为仅次于彼得·德鲁克的管理大师。他英国完成大学教育后先后在东南亚和伦敦的壳牌公司工作，并升任高级管理职务。 后进入美国麻省理工学院斯隆管理学院学习，师从沃伦·被本尼斯等，开始对组织管理及其运作原理产生了兴趣。1967年查尔斯·汉迪返回英国创办了英国首家管理研究生院——伦敦商学院，并成为该学院的全职教授。他以“组织与个人的关系”、“未来工作形态”的新观念而闻名于世，成为继彼得·德鲁克之后在世界上拥有读者最多的管理学权威。查尔斯·汉迪获得13所英国大学名誉博士学位或名誉研究员，最近又接受都柏林三一学院此类荣誉，并于2000年被授予英帝国司令勋章(Commander of the Order of
the British Empire，CBE)。从1976年出版《通晓组织》一书开始到目前为止，汉迪已经出版了十几部在大西洋两岸乃至全世界都颇有影响的著作。这些著作包括《管理之神》、《非理性的年代》、《觉醒的年代》、《变动的年代》、《疯狂世纪》、《组织寓言》、《空雨衣》、《突破常规》、《等待山动》《第二曲线》《拥抱不确定》等。彼得.德鲁克、沃伦.本尼斯、查尔斯.汉迪都已经离我们远去，大师之后，谁来替我们思考呢？转发伦敦商学院网站纪念文章：伦敦商学院缅怀敬爱的教授和同事查尔斯·汉迪查尔斯·汉迪在伦敦的家中平静地去世，他的孩子凯特、斯科特和孙子们都在他的身边陪伴。汉迪是著名的管理思想家，也是伦敦商学院（LBS）的联合创始人。伦敦商学院是组织行为与管理领域的开拓者，对该领域的研究发展做出了开创性贡献。汉迪以提出包括“组合职业”（Portfolio Career）在内的众多新理念而闻名。汉迪是伦敦商学院首批教授之一（1967年至1995年），他是学院的斯隆项目（Sloan）的首任主任，这是一个为经验丰富的高管设计的一年制课程。1972年，他成为伦敦商学院的正教授，专攻管理心理学。汉迪毕业于牛津大学奥里尔学院（Oriel
College, Oxford），获得一等荣誉，主修古典文学、历史和哲学。他认为，人们必须回答哲学问题和经济问题。伦敦商学院前院长安德鲁•利克曼爵士（Sir Andrew Likierman）教授表示，汉迪除了撰写管理学著作外，对伦敦商学院的发展也产生了巨大影响。作为上世纪60年代中期学院成立后首批任命的教授之一，他负责学院刚刚起步的MBA课程，当时是英国首批MBA课程之一。与当时大量强调量化的管理教育形成鲜明对比的是，他的重点是管理和领导的人性方面，这种融合一直存在于伦敦商学院。他还提出了与实践者互动的重要性，作为学术界主要与其他学者交谈的平衡，这种平衡仍然是学院的一个重要特征。他的管理学著作被公认为具有开创性，他平易近人的风格和对管理者思维方式的理解使他的书籍成为人们喜爱的阅读。在他的著作中，他帮助英国在一个主要由美国主导的领域建立了影响力。最后，他是一位宝贵的同事，随时准备提供帮助和建议。他感动和影响了许多人的生活，他们将深深怀念他。”伦敦商学院现任院长谢尔盖•古里耶夫（Sergei Guriev）表示：“我们对伦敦商学院历史上最重要的教授之一的逝世表示哀悼。我们怀着感激之情记住他，以及他对学院和全球管理哲学的重大贡献。”伦敦商学院的查尔斯·汉迪（Charles Handy）讲席教授一职于2014年设立，专注于组织行为学领域。它旨在推进这一领域的研究和教学，重点是了解组织如何运作和发展。
London Business School remembers beloved
professor and colleague Charles Handy CBE14 DECEMBER 2024Featured
newsLeadershipManagementCharles Handydied peacefully at his home in London,
surrounded by his children Kate, Scott and his grandchildren. Mr Handy was a
renowned management thinker and co-founder of London Business School (LBS), a
trailblazer in the area of organisational behaviour and management, and a
seminal contributor to its development as a field of study. He was well known
for the ideas he advanced including the "portfolio career".One of the first
professors of LBS (1967-1995), Mr Handy was the first dean of theSchool’s
Sloan programme, a one-year course of study
designed for experienced executives. He became a full professor at LBS,
specialising in managerial psychology, in 1972.Graduating
from Oriel College, Oxford, with first-class honours in Greats, an intellectual
study of classics, history, and philosophy, Mr Handy believed that people have
to answer philosophical as well as economic questions.Professor
Sir Andrew Likierman, a former Dean of LBS, said
that in addition to his management writings, Mr Handy was a huge influence on
the development of London Business School.“As one of the first
professors appointed to the School after its foundation in the mid-1960s, he
was in charge of its fledgling MBA programme, at that time one of the first in
the UK. As a contrast to the heavily quantitative emphasis of management education
at that time, his emphasis was on the human side of management and leadership
and this blend has stayed with the London Business School to this day. He also
brought in the importance of interaction with practitioners as a balance of
academics talking largely to other academics, again a balance which has
remained an important feature of the School."His management writings were
acknowledged to be pathbreaking and his accessible style and understanding of
the way managers thought made his books read rather than bought. In this
writing, he helped to establish a British influence to a field largely
dominated by the United States. Finally, he was a valued colleague, ready with
help and advice when consulted. He will be greatly missed by the many whose
lives he touched and influenced.”The present Dean of
LBS,Sergei
Guriev, said: "We mourn the
passing of one of the most important professors in the history of London
Business School. It is with gratitude that we remember him and his significant
contributions both to the School and to management philosophy worldwide."The
Charles Handy Chair at LBS, established in 2014, is dedicated to the field of
Organisational Behaviour. It aims to advance research and teaching in this
area, focusing on understanding how organisations operate and evolve.
