Driven

by Lawrence, Paul R.; Nohria, Nitin

• ISBN13: 9780787957858
• ISBN10: 0787957852
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc Pub

Summary

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 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.

Author Biography

Paul R. Lawrence is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Organizational Behavior Emeritus at Harvard Business School Nitin Nohria is Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration and chairman of the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School

Table of Contents

Editor's Note	xiii
Warren Bennis
Foreword	xv
Edward O. Wilson
The Authors	xvii
Preface	xix
Part One BRIDGING GAPS
Setting the Stage for Understanding Human Nature
Toward a Unified Understanding of Human Nature	3	(18)
How the Modern Human Mind Evolved	21	(16)
Innate Drives and Skills	37	(18)
Part Two THE FOUR DRIVES BEHIND HUMAN CHOICES
The Drive to Acquire (D1)	55	(20)
The Drive to Bond (D2)	75	(30)
The Drive to Learn (D3)	105	(24)
The Drive to Defend (D4)	129	(22)
Part Three THE DRIVES IN ACTION
How Human Nature Works in Context
Culture, Skills, Emotions: Other Pieces of the Puzzle	151	(20)
Origins of the Social Contract	171	(22)
Why So Much Diversity?	193	(28)
Part Four HUMAN NATURE AND SOCIETY
Human Nature in Organizational Life	221	(38)
The Road Forward	259	(26)
Afterword: Future Research Proposals	285	(6)
Notes	291	(6)
Bibliography	297	(10)
Index	307