Overview
A touchstone for understanding how we behave on the job
"This is a stimulating and provocative book in bringing togetherimportant ideas from different fields, and, thereby, giving us awhole new slant on 'human nature.'" --Edgar H. Schein, SloanFellows Professor of Management Emeritus and Senior Lecturer,MIT
In this astonishing, provocative, and solidly researched book, twoHarvard Business School professors synthesize 200 years of thoughtalong with the latest research drawn from the biological and socialsciences to propose a new theory, a unified synthesis of humannature. Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria have studied the way peoplebehave in that most fascinating arena of human behavior-theworkplace-and from their work they produce a book that examines thefour separate and distinct emotive drives that guide human behaviorand influence the choices people make: the drives to acquire, bond,learn, and defend. They ultimately show that, just as advances ininformation technology have spurred the New Economy in the lastquarter of the twentieth century, current advances in biology willbe the key to understanding humans and organizations in the newmillennium.
"This is a stimulating and provocative book in bringing togetherimportant ideas from different fields, and, thereby, giving us awhole new slant on 'human nature.'" --Edgar H. Schein, SloanFellows Professor of Management Emeritus and Senior Lecturer,MIT
In this astonishing, provocative, and solidly researched book, twoHarvard Business School professors synthesize 200 years of thoughtalong with the latest research drawn from the biological and socialsciences to propose a new theory, a unified synthesis of humannature. Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria have studied the way peoplebehave in that most fascinating arena of human behavior-theworkplace-and from their work they produce a book that examines thefour separate and distinct emotive drives that guide human behaviorand influence the choices people make: the drives to acquire, bond,learn, and defend. They ultimately show that, just as advances ininformation technology have spurred the New Economy in the lastquarter of the twentieth century, current advances in biology willbe the key to understanding humans and organizations in the newmillennium.
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