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

From the Executive Summary
Driven to Lead proposes—and demonstrates—that good leadership is the application of the extraordinary decision-making process built into the human brain. Our brains have evolved to juggle four different and even conflicting priorities and to arrive, for the most part, at effective, productive solutions. Leadership is not simply an external effect on other people; it’s what is actually happening inside the brain. With this insight, leadership becomes something we can try to improve and apply as methodically as we improve and apply technology and medicine. That’s why Warren Bennis calls Driven to Lead “truly amazing—actually a masterpiece.”

Excerpts from the book

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