Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices
by Paul R. Lawrence, Nitin Nohria (Author)
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A touchstone for understanding how we behave on the job "This is a stimulating and provocative book in bringing together important ideas from different fields, and, thereby, giving us a whole new slant on 'human nature.'" --Edgar H. Schein, Sloan Fellows Professor of Management Emeritus and Senior Lecturer, MIT In this astonishing, provocative, and solidly researched book, two Harvard Business School professors synthesize 200 years of thought along with the latest research drawn from the show more biological and social sciences to propose a new theory, a unified synthesis of human nature. Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria have studied the way people behave in that most fascinating arena of human behavior-the workplace-and from their work they produce a book that examines the four separate and distinct emotive drives that guide human behavior and influence the choices people make: the drives to acquire, bond, learn, and defend. They ultimately show that, just as advances in information technology have spurred the New Economy in the last quarter of the twentieth century, current advances in biology will be the key to understanding humans and organizations in the new millennium. show lessTags
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Uses a basis of neurology and other disciplines to define what drives human beings. It breaks it down into four fundamental drives that sometimes intermingle, but can't be further simplified. These are the Drive to Acquire, the Drive to Bond, the Drive to Learn, and the Drive to Defend. The book uses this information to tell you how to best manage people. That is the vibe I got from it.
The book devotes three chapters to telling us about how the brain evolved, four chapters to telling us about the four drives, three chapters telling us about the context in which they work, and the final two chapters talk about Human Nature and how it relates to society. It is quite scholarly and explains the main thesis really well.
The book devotes three chapters to telling us about how the brain evolved, four chapters to telling us about the four drives, three chapters telling us about the context in which they work, and the final two chapters talk about Human Nature and how it relates to society. It is quite scholarly and explains the main thesis really well.
I included this book in my book: The 100 Best Business Books of All Time. www.100bestbiz.com.
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