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This book is truly amazing--actually, a masterpiece. It tells the story of the human condition.
--From Foreword by WARREN BENNIS
IN THIS FOLLOW-UP BOOK to the best-sellingDriven, Harvard professor Paul Lawrence applies his four-drive theory of human behavior to the realm of leadership, explaining how leadership--like all human behavior--can be understood as a function of the balance, or lack of balance, of four basic human drives: the drive to acquire, to defend, to comprehend, and to bond. We achieve an optimal state of leadership when all four drives are cultivated and balanced.
In this next-step resource, Lawrence uses historical examples and current leadership crises to explain how the balance of the four drives results in one of three types of leadership:
Good leadershipThe best leaders, followers, and stakeholders fulfill the four drives in a balanced manner.Misguided leadershipThese leaders, followers, and stakeholders fulfill one or some of their four drives while ignoring or supp-ressing the others.Evil leadershipDefines leaders who are missing the drive to bond and have influence over others and only fulfill their drives to acquire, defend, and comprehend.Driven to Leadexplains the biological underpinnings of leadership behavior and offers a compelling discussion of the history of leadership. It examines the critical turning points in the leadership of political institutions, the rise of the corporation as the leading economic institution, and the leadership of religious, artistic, and scientific organizations.
Based on theories that are universal, testable, and actionable,Driven to Leadbrings to light a general theory of human behavior that can be used to cultivate good leadership and leaders who have a balance of the four drives.
--From Foreword by WARREN BENNIS
IN THIS FOLLOW-UP BOOK to the best-sellingDriven, Harvard professor Paul Lawrence applies his four-drive theory of human behavior to the realm of leadership, explaining how leadership--like all human behavior--can be understood as a function of the balance, or lack of balance, of four basic human drives: the drive to acquire, to defend, to comprehend, and to bond. We achieve an optimal state of leadership when all four drives are cultivated and balanced.
In this next-step resource, Lawrence uses historical examples and current leadership crises to explain how the balance of the four drives results in one of three types of leadership:
Good leadershipThe best leaders, followers, and stakeholders fulfill the four drives in a balanced manner.Misguided leadershipThese leaders, followers, and stakeholders fulfill one or some of their four drives while ignoring or supp-ressing the others.Evil leadershipDefines leaders who are missing the drive to bond and have influence over others and only fulfill their drives to acquire, defend, and comprehend.Driven to Leadexplains the biological underpinnings of leadership behavior and offers a compelling discussion of the history of leadership. It examines the critical turning points in the leadership of political institutions, the rise of the corporation as the leading economic institution, and the leadership of religious, artistic, and scientific organizations.
Based on theories that are universal, testable, and actionable,Driven to Leadbrings to light a general theory of human behavior that can be used to cultivate good leadership and leaders who have a balance of the four drives.
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Table of Contents
Endorsements
This is an inspiring book, filled with excellent examples, valuable advice, and warnings not to be overlooked. Every executive would be well-served to read this book cover-to-cover.
Robert Porter Lynch, chairman emeritus, Association of Strategic
Alliance Professionals
Alliance Professionals
Paul Lawrence tracks leadership qualities into the deepest recesses of the human brain. Listen up, business! Tapping into this scientific understanding of leadership is key to your companys success or failure.
William C. Frederick, professor emeritus, Katz Graduate School of
Business, University of Pittsburgh
Business, University of Pittsburgh
Paul Lawrence proposes that nature has provided us with individuals of conscience who are capable of good leadership, but also with a small number of individuals whose lack of conscience typically makes them bad leaders. He refers to such individuals as free riders, psychopaths, or people without conscience, and discusses in detail the devastating impact they have when placed in a leadership role, particularly in business, politics, the military, and religion. His thesis is brilliant and compelling, and in line with current research on the neuroscience of psychopathy. Driven to Lead is essential reading for anyone who hopes to gain some understanding of the scandals and disasters that result from bad leadership.
Robert D. Hare, professor emeritus of psychology, University of
British Columbia
British Columbia
Praise forDriven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices
In this pathbreaking book, Paul R. Lawrence and Nitin Nohria show [that] ... the deep study of human nature does not justify Social Darwinism and gladiatorial commercial combat of the kind often portrayed in popular media. On the contrary, it offers formulas for a more harmonious and efficient conduct of human affairs. The approach .... is naturalistic, based on self-understanding and the cultivation of the strong cooperative instincts that have favored group survival for countless millennia.
Excerpt from the Foreword by Edward O. Wilson
Warren Bennis
A WARREN BENNIS BOOK
This collection of books is devoted exclusively to new and exemplary contributions to management thought and practice. The books in this series are addressed to thoughtful leaders, executives, and managers of all organizations who are struggling with and committed to responsible change. My hope and goal is to spark new intellectual capital by sharing ideas positioned at an angle to conventional thoughtin short, to publish books that disturb the present in the service of a better future.
Books in the Warren Bennis Signature Series
| Branden | Self-Esteem at Work |
| Burke, Lake, Paine | Organization Change |
| Cleveland | Nobody in Charge |
| Cloke, Goldsmith | The Art of Waking People Up |
| Cloke, Goldsmith | The End of Management and the Rise of Organizational Democracy |
| Frohman, Howard | Leadership the Hard Way |
| George | Authentic Leadership |
| George | 7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis |
| George | True North |
| George, McLean, Craig | Finding Your True North: A Personal Guide |
| Gergen, Vanourek | Life Entrepreneurs |
| Glen | Leading Geeks |
| Higgins | Career Imprints |
| Kellerman, Rhode | Women and Leadership |
| Kleiner | The Age of Heretics |
| Kohlrieser | Hostage at the Table |
| Lawrence, Nohria | Driven |
| Mitroff, Denton | A Spiritual Audit of Corporate America |
| Rhode | Moral Leadership |
| Riggio | The Art of Followership |
| Sample | The Contrarians Guide to Leadership |
| Schein | The Corporate Culture Survival Guide |
| Townsend | Up the Organization |
| Zaffron, Logan | The Three Laws of Performance |
To Martha, my lifelong partner
FOREWORD
by Warren Bennis
This book is truly amazingactually, a masterpiece. It tells the story of the human condition. It tells this story across human history, deep human history. Lawrence realizes that our understanding of leadership can be no better than our understanding of what makes humans, all humans, tickwhat are the ultimate motivators of our behavior. This is true because leadership is all about relationships with others. So that is where he startswith the basic few motives, the innate drives that have been essential to our survival and development into the dominant species on earth.
To do this, Lawrence had to rediscover Darwins insights about humans in Darwins second epic book, The Descent of Man, which evolutionary biologists have, strangely, ignored. This reveals a new Darwin that turns the publics assumptions about Darwin upside down. The key is Darwins revolutionary observation that the most important difference between humans and lower species is our innate moral sense, our conscience. What an observationand now we have evidence that it is a valid observationexcept for the very few people who are missing the key mutation in their brain.
But this is enough of the story for me to tell here. Read on and you will find explanations of key turning points in human history, explanations of good, bad, and misguided leaders, and even evil leaders like Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. Lawrence provides an explanation of the greatness of Americas governmental form as well as the nature of its current crisis, and the same is true of the greatness and the current crisis of our vast corporations.
And, finally, Driven to Lead offers a path toward a better future for all.
ACKNOWLEDMENTS
Over the years that I have worked on this research project I have benefited greatly from the many scholars and friends who have studied various drafts of this work and helped me develop its strengths and avoid its pitfalls. The following people have read and provided insightful comments on one or more drafts of the work: Louise Ames, Oakes Ames, Max Bazerman, Michael Beer, Robin Ely, William Frederick, Benjamin Freidman, William George, Joshua Greene, Boris Groysberg, Ranjay Gulati, Marc Hauser, Linda Hill, Rakesh Khurana, John Kotter, Anne Lawrence, William Lawrence, Hans Loeser, Jay Lorsch, Robert Porter Lynch, Joshua Margolis, Kenneth Miller, Lynn Paine, Steven Pinker, Joseph Platt, Jo Procter, Robert Simon, Scott Snook, Renato Taguiri, David Thomas, Andrew Towl, Michael Tushman, Andrew Van de Ven, Charalambos Vlachoutsicos, and Richard Wrangham.
In addition, I wish especially to recognize the help of the following:
Nitin Nohria, my coauthor of Driven, who throughout the work on this follow-on book has been a steady and wise advisor to me every step of the way.
Warren Bennis, the general editor of the Jossey-Bass series on leadership, for his unwavering support of the merit of this work.
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