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The great Charles Handy, our dear friend and mentor, left us on Friday. He passed peacefully away at home in London, aged 92, surrounded by his family.
Charles was involved in the Drucker Forum from the very beginning – indeed, he provided the greatest encouragement to us after the first Forum, conceived as a Peter Drucker centennial celebration, to convene again the next year and to keep doing so. "You are on to something here," we remember him saying. "This shouldn’t be a one-off." He would go on to help and inspire in so many ways that, when we decided to create an honorary annual lectureship, we had no hesitation to give it the name of "The Charles and Elizabeth Handy Lecture Series."
Charles was one of the great thinkers and wise men of our time. A polymath who did not fit into any narrow academic category, he liked to refer to himself as a social philosopher. But he wasn't content with only philosophizing about things. Like Drucker, he always concerned himself with real-world practice and beneficial application.
Another longtime friend of the Forum, Andrew Hill of the Financial Times, has authored a moving obituary appearing in that publication today. It concludes with Charles’s unforgettable closing keynote at the 2017 Drucker Forum. You can watch this landmark speech in full via this link.
You will receive a newsletter before Christmas more fully highlighting the exceptional creativity, humanity, and impact of Charles Handy's work (with more links to our significant library of his presentations and articles over the years) and expressing our gratitude for being close to an exceptional human being who has been such a wonderful personal friend and supporter of the Forum.
Our thoughts are with his children, Kate and Scott, and their families.
Warm regards
Richard & Ilse Straub
Cofounders, Global Peter Drucker Forum
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