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Summary

In this highly provocative book, two Harvard Business School  professors synthesize 200 years of thought from the biological and  social sciences to formulate a new theory of human nature.  Comparable to Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence,  Lawrence and Nohria's work examines the four drives that influence  the choices people make. These innate and often conflicting drives  are the drive to acquire, the drive to bond, the drive to learn and  the drive to defend.    The authors have studied the way people behave in the most  fascinating setting of human behavior: the workplace. They have  considerable training in all the human behavioral sciences and  choose the best each has to offer while avoiding entrenched biases.  As a result, they have started to bridge the gap between the latest  findings from evolutionary biology and insights about humanity  derived from the social sciences. In doing so, they have in essence  laid a foundation for a unified understanding of human behavior.     Not only does this book illuminate the mystery of human behavior,  it also predicts that just as advances in information technology  spurred the new economy at the end of the 20th Century, the current  advances being made in biology will be the key to understanding  humans and organizations in the 21st.

Duration: about 10 hours (09:53:36)
Publishing date: 2020-07-20; Unabridged; Copyright Year: 2020. Copyright Statment: —

• Business & Economics