The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
Humans have evolved four priorities or “drives,” according to HBS professor emeritus Paul R. Lawrence: the drive to acquire, to defend, to bond, and to comprehend. In an excerpt from his new book, Driven to Lead: Good, Bad, and Misguided Leadership, Lawrence describes how the four drives impact globalization.
Content: Article | Author: Paul R. Lawrence | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Economics, International
Paul R. Lawrence
Good leaders are people with a conscience who respect and reward all the four drives of other stakeholders [the drive to acquire, to defend, to bond, and to comprehend], even as they respect and reward their own drives.
Content: Quotation | Author: Paul R. Lawrence | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Leadership
Paul R. Lawrence
The classic trading system of exchange is identified with David Ricardo, the early nineteenth-century economist who first analytically clarified it.
As practiced today, Ricardo’s classic system results in win-win exchanges when both trading partners are either (1) industrialized nations with modern impulse/check/balance governments, no excessive unemployment, and reasonably effective control of corporate abuses or (2) less-developed nations roughly equal in power and with some control … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Author: Paul R. Lawrence | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Economics