The Empty Raincoat

• Are you on the way to Davy's Bar?
• When is the moment to take the Sigmoid Curve?
• Do you know the Doughnut Principle?
• What is a Chinese contract?

The changes which Charles Handy, Britain's foremost business guru, foresaw in The Age of Unreason are happening. Endless growth can create a candyfloss economy, and capitalism must be its own sternest critic.

In this bestselling book Charles Handy reaches for philosophy beyond the mechanics of business organisations, beyond material choices, to try to establish an alternative universe, where life and work are re-grounded in a natural sense of continuity, connection and purposeful direction.

• The Story Behind the Book
• Part One: In the Dark Wood:
  Confused by Paradox
1. We Are Not Where We Hoped To Be
2. The Paradoxes of Our Times
• Part Two: Finding the Balance:
  Pathways Through Paradox
3. The Sigmoid Curve
4. The Doughnut Principle
5. The Chinese Contract
• Part Three: Practising the Preaching:
  Managing Paradox
  • The Federalist Idea
  6. Twin Citizenship
  7. Subsidiarity
  • The Meaning of Business
  8. The Corporate Contract
  9. The Membership Business
  • Redesigning Life
  10. Working Time
  11. Spliced Lives
  • A State of Justice
  12. The Intelligence Investment
  13. The New Scorecard
• Part Four: The Search for Meaning:
  Making Sense of Paradox
  • The Three Senses
  14. A Sense of Continuity
  15. A Sense of Connection
  16. A Sense of Direction

Should be read by everyone.