Table of Contents

Foreword xi

Acknowledgments xiii

The Author xv

Introduction xvii

1 How Much Can We Hope For? 1

Part One: the Leadership Brain 9

2 A Brain Designed for Leadership? 11

3 Darwin Rediscovered: Did the Brain Evolve Leadership Capabilities? 53

Part Two: Historic Leadership Patterns 79

4 All About Leaders: Good, Bad, and Misguided 81

5 Leadership and the Historic Evolution of Political Institutions 101

6 Leadership of Economic Institutions: The Rise of Corporations 123

7 Leadership in Institutions of Human Meaning: Religion, Art, and Science 143

Part Three: Leadership in Contemporary Affairs 167

8 Keeping on Track: Leadership in Contemporary Corporations 169

9 A Worldwide Swindle: By Banking Leaders-w/o-Conscience? 193

10 Keeping a Global Economy and a Global Community on Track 213

11 Keeping on Track by Practicing Good/Moral Leadership 241

12 Renewing the Story of Human Progress with Darwin’s Help 267

Appendix: Darwin Misunderstood 271

Notes 283

Index 301

About the Author

paul r. lawrence is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Organizational Behavior Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He is the author of twenty-five books and numerous articles across the entire field of social sciences and is the coauthor, with Nitin Nohria, of Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices.

Reviews

"...former Medtronic CEO and smart leadership thinker Bill George loved it, and I have to think someone who's been studying the topic since at least the 1960s would have something smart to say." (Washington Post, October 2010)