Driven: How Human Nature Shapes our Choices

EDITOR'S NOTE

As an editor and writer, I'm always on the lookout for a perfect book. This one, written by two distinguished Harvard Business School professors, two generations apart in age and centuries apart culturally, is as close as it gets to fitting that bill. I am equally thrilled and proud to have Driven in the Warren Bennis Signature Series—where we attempt to publish works at “an angle to conventional thought.”

In this book, Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria provide a thorough, integrated, and complete four-factor framework of human nature based on a stunning synthesis of the biological and social sciences. I could stop now—but as the TV commercials say, there's “much, much more.” Among other attributes, it is a totally original work, applying ...