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.' 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. 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. Basic - The only nugget I got from the book is an idea to create a most robust connections in a community by 'forcing people' to interact based on the story of a priest having all members at the end of church put their name in a hat - pairing them up - and requiring that they meet for a 30-45 minute coffee/tea. My thoughts: People innately want to connect with others but life experience makes it scary to reach out. Creating a forced element removes requiring people to put themselves out there and forces people to focus on similarities to get through the time period. Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill is a short story, a bit of flash fiction. Like that oft-cited Ernest Hemingway anecdote, it hints at a larger plot, one that a reader might infer. Mix - Grouper Dragging a Dead Dear Up A Hill (full album) YouTube Tim Hecker - Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again [Full Album] - Duration: 54:01. French Kettle Station 658,913 views. Grouper dragging dead deer up hill zip lines. Nov 6, 2013 - Propensity toward accumulators. Warden service hosts international game wardens in nc. Propensity toward givers/philanthropists. *From Driven, Paul R. Lawrence and Nitin Nohria, Harvard Business.
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