Why some leaders are born, not made
2/20/2001
People within organizations behave pretty much according to form, writes the author, a professor at the London Business School and a specialist in organizational psychology. And that form, he believes, dates to the Stone Age. By pulling together diverse research data and analyzing the intersection of evolutionary psychology with modern management techniques, Nicholson attempts to help today's executives figure out how to work with, and around, some of the human hardwiring that has been part of our species for hundreds of thousands of years. Part of his provocative thesis, for instance, is that leaders are born, not made; and that organizations tend to get the kind of leaders they deserve.