The Oldie

The Handy guide to going out in style

When it comes to creating a good life, my hero is the great management guru Charles Handy, who recently celebrated his 89th birthday.

Handy’s wife died three years ago. He then had a stroke, which paralysed his left side. But he still maintains a healthy mix of country and town life, shuttling, with his carer, between a flat in Putney and a cottage in Norfolk. Here he writes and reads in the morning and plays croquet and meditates in the

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