Charles Handy

So what I was thinking about was how independent professionals structure their practice.

Now, Charles Handy, in 1989, described companies.

This is Like what, 40 years ago? No, nearly 40 years ago.

And he said companies then, this is pre-internet, they'd have a small professional core, have a contractual fringe of outside specialists and a flexible labour force.

The talent you bring in.

The AI that extends you or the automations and the community that keeps you sharp.

So there's four parts to it, I see, and that's very different from what Charles Handy said.

So your dominant leaf looks like all your agents, your vibe-coded projects, and your FAIL.

Yeah.

But there is another major trend that deeply threatens that kind of cohesive culture, and that's the rise of outsourcing and what Charles Handy calls the Shamrock Organization.

This concept is just wild.

A Shamrock Organization is composed of three distinct equal leaves.

David Phelan, Monocle's tech correspondent, thank you very much for joining us.

And now, as you were hearing, of course, Apple has a new CEO, and we wanna hear from Herminia Ibarra, the Charles Handy Professor of Organizational Behavior at London's Business School.

She studies how people step up to big leadership roles and offered us some advice for John Ternus on how to take over as the new big boss.

[upbeat music] So I've got five top tips for John Ternus as he steps up into his new role as Apple CEO.

Don't try to become a more charismatic version of your predecessor or to fit anyone else's mold.

Figure out what's distinctive about you that the organization needs now, and make it visible.

Herminia Ibarra there, the Charles Handy Professor of Organizational Behavior at the London Business School.

Thanks also to David Phelan, our tech correspondent.

And that's why the process of, I hope it felt like that to you as well, but the diligence process and the...

it was no drama really was it it just wasn't a big deal because it was it was a chinese contract in the charles handy's true sense if it worked for you and it worked for me we were saying about a paper and it did and we knew we were both going and it fed and it fitted i think for you because the values matched as well and

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Penny Shaplin Ju's text introduces Charles Handy's concept of the second curve, which really illustrates this.

Right.

The idea that the life cycle of any business model or product is a sigmoid curve.