Driven to Lead: Good, Bad, and Misguided Leadership

by Paul R. Lawrence

Praise for "Driven to Lead""A powerful scientific framework, grounded in evolutionary biology, that helps us think about leadership successes and failures throughout history and how we might address humanity's need for better leadership going forward."--Nitin Nohria, Dean, Harvard Business School"Brilliant insights--straightforward, easy to comprehend, and extremely useful to anyone in business. I predict the four-drives model will replace Maslow's hierarchy of needs as the accepted way of describing human behavior."--David N. Burt, chairman emeritus, Supply Chain Management Institute, University of San Diego"Paul Lawrence is back! "Driven to Lead" is the most comprehensive general theory of leadership ever created. By digging deeply into Darwin, Lawrence offers a practical guide for authentic leaders to excel in today's challenging world."--Bill George, professor of management practice, Harvard Business School, and former chair and CEO, Medtronic"If Darwin had written a book about leadership in the twenty-first century, this would be it."--Ranjay Gulati, Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School"It's the E = mc2 of human behavior."--Malcolm DeLeo, Vice President of Innovation, Daymon Worldwide"This book presents a rigorous and novel theory on how evolution and the human brain can produce effective and ineffective leadership. The writing is clear. It is accessible to practitioners as well as to researchers."--Chris Argyris, professor emeritus, Harvard Business School

Genres: Leadership, Nonfiction

336 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 2, 2010

Reviews

[Leah · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a really thought-provoking book and provides a great basis for thinking about human interactions and needs.

There was a really jarring part in the middle where the author was suddenly like "PS, this proves god exists because of REASONS and even Stephen Hawking says so!" and then goes back to being all sound and scientific. I don't know what that was about, but the rest of the book was quite good.

[Dale Nicetic · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good read I found the first half of the book a very informative discussion on how humans are hard wired to balance the four drives to obtain the best overall outcome in decision making.

[dv · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good book on leadership, starting from darwinian concepts and elaborating them (sometimes too copious) with historical examples. Too bad the organizational point of view is not faced with much depth.