focused on ‘the idea that the creators of wealth and the creators of culture share
ideas and experiences with the aim of precipitating more joint projects’: ‘Business
guru Charles Handy will lecture on the importance of creativity in business, and
executives will be encouraged to visit companies that have effectively used artists,
from actors to dancers to painters, to improve productivity’. There is a decided
accent on the utilitarian nature of the exchange, particularly learning how ‘genera-
tors of culture’ can help to unleash the latent creativity of corporate managers,
which raises the productivity level of corporations.
Meditations on organizations and the nature of managerial work have been a
long-standing theme for Handy. Adopting an increasingly self-referential perspec-
tive, Handy’s recent texts – namely
The Search for Meaning
(1996),
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