LAWRENCE, PAUL R. AND NITIN NOHRIA. 2002. Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. [ISBN 0-7879-6385-2.]

Keith S. Harris, Ph.D., Research Director, Department of Behavioral Health, San Bernardino County, CA, USA, wrote a review: "It is not the laboratory but the workplace that is the ideal setting to study human nature, according to Lawrence and Nohria. This book seeks to examine the common drives that shape human behavior, and to show how they evolved, what they evolved to accomplish, and how they still operate in both small and large-group settings. Although this book has much to say about human psychology, authors Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria are not psychologists. Both are professors of organizational behavior at Harvard, and they well know that the individual human cannot be understood distinct from his or her reciprocity groups, of which the epitome is the modern tribe known as an organization." The full text of the review, which was published in Human Nature Review 2003 Volume 3: 263-265 (8 May) is available online. via Anthro-L

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