Great men and wise sayings
A collection of quotes from renowned individuals throughout history, provided with their Korean translations.

Charles Handy - The companies that survive longest are the ones that work out what they uniquely can give to the world.

Charles Handy - The companies that survive longest are the ones that work out what they uniquely can give to the world.

Charles Handy


"The companies that survive longest are the ones that work out what they uniquely can give to the world." - Charles Handy.

"๊ฐ€์žฅ ์˜ค๋ž˜ ์ƒ์กดํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ์—…์€ ์„ธ์ƒ์— ๊ณ ์œ ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ์•Œ์•„๋‚ธ ๊ธฐ์—…์ด๋‹ค." - ์ฐฐ์Šค ํ•ธ๋””.


Charles Handy – "The Companies That Survive Longest Are the Ones That Work Out What They Uniquely Can Give to the World."

Charles Handy is an Irish author and philosopher specializing in organizational behavior and management. Born in 1932, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential management thinkers in Europe. After a career at Royal Dutch Shell and as a professor at the London Business School, he transitioned into an independent writer, producing classics such as The Age of Unreason and The Empty Raincoat. Handy is famous for introducing concepts like the "Shamrock Organization" and "Portfolio Careers," which predicted the rise of flexible, independent work long before the gig economy existed. His work transcends mere business strategy, focusing on how individuals and organizations can find purpose and balance in an ever-changing world.


์ฐฐ์Šค ํ•ธ๋””๋Š” ์กฐ์ง ํ–‰๋™๊ณผ ๊ฒฝ์˜ํ•™์„ ์ „๋ฌธ์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๋Š” ์•„์ผ๋žœ๋“œ ์ถœ์‹ ์˜ ์ž‘๊ฐ€์ด์ž ์ฒ ํ•™์ž์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1932๋…„์— ํƒœ์–ด๋‚œ ๊ทธ๋Š” ์œ ๋Ÿฝ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ ฅ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์˜ ์‚ฌ์ƒ๊ฐ€ ์ค‘ ํ•œ ๋ช…์œผ๋กœ ๋„๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ •๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋กœ์—ด ๋”์น˜ ์‰˜์—์„œ์˜ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ๋Ÿฐ๋˜ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ์Šค์ฟจ ๊ต์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์ณ ๋…๋ฆฝ ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋กœ ํ™œ๋™ํ•˜๋ฉฐ 《๋น„์ด์„ฑ์˜ ์‹œ๋Œ€》, 《๋นˆ ๋ ˆ์ธ์ฝ”ํŠธ》์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ณ ์ „์„ ์ง‘ํ•„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•ธ๋””๋Š” 'ํด๋กœ๋ฒ„ ์กฐ์ง'์ด๋‚˜ 'ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค ์ปค๋ฆฌ์–ด'์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฐœ๋…์„ ๋„์ž…ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์œ ๋ช…ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚ ์˜ ๊ธฑ ๊ฒฝ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์กด์žฌํ•˜๊ธฐ ํ›จ์”ฌ ์ „๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์œ ์—ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ๋…๋ฆฝ์ ์ธ ๋…ธ๋™์˜ ๋ถ€์ƒ์„ ์˜ˆ๊ฒฌํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ์ €์ž‘์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์˜ ์ „๋žต์„ ๋„˜์–ด, ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ๋ณ€ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ์„ธ์ƒ ์†์—์„œ ๊ฐœ์ธ๊ณผ ์กฐ์ง์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ชฉ์ ๊ณผ ๊ท ํ˜•์„ ์ฐพ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€์— ์ดˆ์ ์„ ๋งž์ถ”๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


Charles Handy


Survival Through Unique Contribution

Handy’s profound observation shifts the focus of business from mere profit-seeking to a higher sense of purpose. In a competitive market, many companies focus solely on efficiency, cost-cutting, or imitating successful rivals. However, Handy argues that longevity is reserved for those who discover their "unique gift" to society. This uniqueness is not just a marketing slogan; it is the core reason for an organization's existence. When a company identifies what only they can provide—whether through a specific technology, a unique culture, or a dedicated mission—they create a value proposition that is difficult to replace. Survival, therefore, is a byproduct of being indispensable to the world.


์ฐฐ์Šค ํ•ธ๋””์˜ ์‹ฌ์˜คํ•œ ๊ด€์ฐฐ์€ ๊ธฐ์—…์˜ ์ดˆ์ ์„ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ์ด์œค ์ถ”๊ตฌ์—์„œ ๋” ๋†’์€ ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ๋ชฉ์  ์˜์‹์œผ๋กœ ์˜ฎ๊ฒจ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์ด ์น˜์—ดํ•œ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ๋งŽ์€ ๊ธฐ์—…์ด ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ, ๋น„์šฉ ์ ˆ๊ฐ, ํ˜น์€ ์„ฑ๊ณตํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์ž๋ฅผ ๋ชจ๋ฐฉํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ๋งŒ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณค ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ํ•ธ๋””๋Š” ์žฅ์ˆ˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ์—…์€ ์‚ฌํšŒ์— ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ๋“ค๋งŒ์˜ '๊ณ ์œ ํ•œ ์„ ๋ฌผ'์„ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•œ ๊ณณ๋“ค์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋…ํŠนํ•จ์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ์Šฌ๋กœ๊ฑด์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ์กฐ์ง์ด ์กด์žฌํ•˜๋Š” ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ ์ธ ์ด์œ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠน์ • ๊ธฐ์ˆ , ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ๋ฌธํ™”, ํ˜น์€ ํ—Œ์‹ ์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ๋ช… ๋“ฑ ์˜ค์ง ์ž์‹ ๋“ค๋งŒ์ด ์ œ๊ณตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ •์˜ํ•  ๋•Œ, ๊ธฐ์—…์€ ๋Œ€์ฒด ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ƒ์กด์€ ์„ธ์ƒ์— ๊ผญ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์กด์žฌ๊ฐ€ ๋œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋กœ ๋”ฐ๋ผ์˜ค๋Š” ๋ถ€์‚ฐ๋ฌผ์ธ ์…ˆ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


Charles Handy


The Shift from Taking to Giving

The essence of Handy’s philosophy is the transition from a "taking" mindset to a "giving" mindset. Traditional business models often ask, "How much can we take from the market?" Handy encourages leaders to ask, "What can we give to the world?" This shift in perspective creates a more sustainable business ecosystem. Companies that prioritize giving tend to build stronger trust with customers, attract more passionate employees, and foster long-term loyalty. By working out their unique contribution, firms align their internal goals with the external needs of humanity. This alignment provides a resilient foundation that can withstand economic downturns and technological disruptions because the world has a vested interest in that company's continued existence.


ํ•ธ๋”” ์ฒ ํ•™์˜ ๋ณธ์งˆ์€ '์ทจํ•˜๋Š”(taking)' ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๋ฐฉ์‹์—์„œ '์ฃผ๋Š”(giving)' ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ์˜ ์ „ํ™˜์— ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „ํ†ต์ ์ธ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ๋ชจ๋ธ์€ ์ข…์ข… "์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์˜ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”๊ฐ€?"๋ฅผ ๋ฌป์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ํ•ธ๋””๋Š” ๋ฆฌ๋”๋“ค์ด "์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์„ธ์ƒ์— ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”๊ฐ€?"๋ฅผ ์ž๋ฌธํ•˜๋„๋ก ๊ฒฉ๋ คํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ด€์ ์˜ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋Š” ๋” ์ง€์† ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ์ƒํƒœ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์šฐ์„ ์‹œํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ์—…์€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๋” ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์‹ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ณ , ๋” ์—ด์ •์ ์ธ ์ธ์žฌ๋ฅผ ๋Œ์–ด๋“ค์ด๋ฉฐ, ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์ถฉ์„ฑ๋„๋ฅผ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝํ–ฅ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž์‹ ๋“ค๋งŒ์˜ ๊ณ ์œ ํ•œ ๊ธฐ์—ฌ๋ฅผ ์ •์˜ํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ๊ธฐ์—…์€ ๋‚ด๋ถ€ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์ธ๋ฅ˜์˜ ์™ธ๋ถ€ ์š”๊ตฌ์™€ ์ผ์น˜์‹œํ‚ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ผ์น˜๋Š” ์„ธ์ƒ์ด ๊ทธ ๊ธฐ์—…์˜ ์กด์†์— ๊นŠ์€ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์„ ๊ฐ–๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—, ๊ฒฝ์ œ ์นจ์ฒด๋‚˜ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์  ๊ฒฉ๋ณ€ ์†์—์„œ๋„ ๊ฒฌ๋”œ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํšŒ๋ณต๋ ฅ ์žˆ๋Š” ํ† ๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


Charles Handy


Finding Purpose in the Modern Economy

In today’s rapidly changing digital economy, Handy’s wisdom is more relevant than ever. With the rise of AI and automation, generic services are becoming commodities. The only way for an organization—or even an individual—to remain relevant is to lean into their unique humanity and specific purpose. Success is no longer measured solely by the balance sheet, but by the positive footprint left on society. Handy’s legacy teaches us that the pursuit of "greatness" should be synonymous with the pursuit of "usefulness." As you build your career or business, remember that the secret to lasting success is not in winning a race against others, but in discovering the unique value that only you can contribute to the global community.


์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚  ๊ธ‰๋ณ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ๊ฒฝ์ œ ์†์—์„œ ์ฐฐ์Šค ํ•ธ๋””์˜ ์ง€ํ˜œ๋Š” ๊ทธ ์–ด๋А ๋•Œ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. AI์™€ ์ž๋™ํ™”์˜ ๋ถ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋“ค์€ ์ƒํ’ˆํ™”(commodity)๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์กฐ์ง์ด๋‚˜ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ด ๋„ํƒœ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์œ ์ผํ•œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์€ ์ž์‹ ๋งŒ์˜ ๊ณ ์œ ํ•œ ์ธ๊ฐ„์„ฑ๊ณผ ํŠน์ •ํ•œ ๋ชฉ์ ์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์„ฑ๊ณต์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ์žฌ๋ฌด์ œํ‘œ๋กœ๋งŒ ์ธก์ •๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ์‚ฌํšŒ์— ๋‚จ๊ธด ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ๋ฐœ์ž์ทจ๋กœ ์ธก์ •๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•ธ๋””์˜ ์œ ์‚ฐ์€ '์œ„๋Œ€ํ•จ'์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ถ”๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ '์œ ์šฉํ•จ'์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ถ”๊ตฌ์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ์˜๋ฏธ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์–ด์•ผ ํ•จ์„ ๊ฐ€๋ฅด์ณ ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์ด๋‚˜ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค๋ฅผ ์Œ“์•„๊ฐˆ ๋•Œ, ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์„ฑ๊ณต์˜ ๋น„๊ฒฐ์€ ๋‚จ๊ณผ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์—์„œ ์ด๊ธฐ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ์˜ค์ง ๋‹น์‹ ๋งŒ์ด ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ๊ณต๋™์ฒด์— ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ณ ์œ ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์žˆ์Œ์„ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค.





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