Andrew O'Keeffe

Hardwired Humans (eBook, ePUB)

Successful Leadership Using Human Instincts

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Offices are not our natural habitat. Leadership is easier when we understand the nine instincts that still drive human behaviour. With the Industrial Revolution only 250 years ago, we left our hunting, gathering and village societies to work in offices and factories. The behaviour that ensured our ancestors' survival on the savannah plains of Africa over the millennia is alive and well in today's workplaces. The nine instincts explain the reasons, and the solutions, to the challenges that leaders commonly face. Based on the author's wide experience in large organisations combined with witty true stories of chimps from Gombe, Tanzania and Taronga Zoo, Sydney, Hardwired Humans explains the psychology behind the human instincts of social behaviour. As you read this entertaining book, you will learn how the instincts of clan connections, hierarchy, gossip, politics, snap judgments, status displays and sexual competition continue to drive modern office interactions just as they have driven human interaction for millennia. The book shares a practical framework that helps makes sense of human behaviour and allows leaders to manage more effectively. In a note introducing the book, Dr Jane Goodall calls it a 'compelling book'. The Australian Financial Review Boss magazine highly recommends the book as one 'that will captivate anyone who finds the "people stuff" confounding.'

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Great Bosses Pty Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781742980560
• Artikelnr.: 55030194

Autorenporträt

Andrew O'Keeffe has worked in senior roles with IBM, Cable & Wireless Optus, SKM and Hewitt Associates. Early in his career he worked in industrial relations in the mining and manufacturing industries. He is an associate of three of Australia's leading business schools and author of the celebrated novel The Boss. Andrew grew up in Broken Hill, Australia, studied economics and industrial relations at The University of Sydney and consults in the human dimension of organisations through his consulting firm, Hardwired Humans.