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Paul R. Lawrence (Author)
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August 9, 2010 0470623845 978-0470623848 1
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


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"...former Medtronic CEO and smart leadership thinker Bill George loved it, and I have to think someone who's been studying the topic since at least the 1960s would have something smart to say." (Washington Post, October 2010)

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In this follow-up book to the best-selling Driven, 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 leadership: The best leaders, followers, and stakeholders fulfill the four drives in a balanced manner.

  • Misguided leadership: These leaders, followers, and stakeholders fulfill one or some of their four drives while ignoring or supp-ressing the others.

  • Evil leadership: Defines 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 Lead explains 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 Lead brings 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.


Product Details

  • Hardcover: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (August 9, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0470623845
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470623848
  • Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #747,002 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A very powerful book! A game changer for all those interested in how to best address the problems facing humanity., September 3, 2010
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This book is nothing short of a revelation for all those concerned with the current state of affairs be it in business, politics, or the environment. Not that "Driven to lead" offers any concrete hints at what to do specifically to prevent environmental destruction or social inequities, but rather that it provides something far more important: a rigorous concept of human nature, which informs us in many insightful ways how to build societal institutions that ensure human flourishing in a sustainable manner.

This book owes its genius not necessarily to the novelty of the presented facts, but rather the coherent presentation of these facts within a concise theory, that is comprehensible to all. The book is highly informative, eminently readable and of urgent need.

"Driven to Lead" renders greatly needed service, in that it questions assumptions that have long dominated social sciences, and especially notions of leadership. The theory presented provides a crucial stepping stone in our endeavor to understand ourselves better, to build and lead the best organizations possible, and to understand how we can deal successfully with the current environmental and societal crises.

A true masterpiece, as Warren Bennis calls it. Indeed.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A truly fresh and integrated view that makes sense of a world full of myth and nonsense, March 30, 2011
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Brilliant book, disciplined, well cadenced, drawing on and integrating disparate disciplines. Lifts the reader to a level above the confusion and opinion around leadership, provides an integrating framework. Best read of the last 12 months. You may not agree with everything but few would find nothing new and rewarding in the book. I bought the Kindle edition first but bought the hard copy soon after.

David Austin, Assoc Professor Entrepreneurship, Melbourne Business School, Australia
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