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AND MICHEAL PORTE1 AND MICHEAL PORTE1COMPARISON OF CHARLES HANDY AND MICHEAL PORTERIntroductionIn the modern age, when nature of concern science is changingrapidly, ideas and work of hardly a(prenominal) are helping the organizations andindividuals to cope with these changes. They are the people who laidthe posterior of modern management studies, and are known asmanagement gurus. Among the a few(prenominal) top management gurus Charles handy andMichael Porter are the one who had the persistent influence on managementthought and piece of music. Both are whimsical in their own fields in many ways.My aim is to comparison and contrast the ideologies, work, and style ofthese two leading management gurus.Comparison & melodyCharles Handy is an eminent management guru who has deliveredinsightful and humorous analysis of the management task for many years.He has developed great thinking and create verbally on management, arts,culture, business ethics. His writings are inspiring - philosophical,passionate, lively, enlightening Refreshing, thought-provoking, repugn and interesting to read. It gives inspiration, argumentsand confidence to many of readers who are feeling beleaguered by the late priorities and agendas facing the arts and management sciences.Charles Handy style is informative, readily accessible, and pepperedwith individualised anecdote and reflection.Many other management thinkers create new models ground on empiricalresearch and popularize them as their masterwork but Handys researchis based on his personal experiences, assessment and observations. Hestarted with his branch disk, Understanding Organizations (1976,revised 1991) and later in his other book GODS OF MANAGEMENT THECHANGING WORK OF ORGANISATIONS (1978) he used Greek gods in orderto explain his view in a more simplified form, by doing this he earn aunique style of writing in management literature.In the 1980s he developed his thinking and writing skills , nearmodern style of li ving and working, which he explain in his famousbook The Age Of Unreason and The Future Of Work(1989), which pioneerednew ideas about the value of knowledge and self-determination. Handysmessage is that we will not survive unless we react to the radicalway in which the world is changing. Handy was one of the first toidentify the end of careers for life. His book, jointly written withJohn Constable, The Making Of Managers in 1988, criticized the currentmanagement style adopted by managers, and advocated radicalimprovements to, UK management standards, which gave rise to theManagement Charter Initiative (which eventually choked on its ownbureaucracy). In the 1990s he focused increasingly on good andphilosophical issues for business and society, as reflected in hiscollection of observations, like in his article Waiting For The