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<p>In this remarkable book, Nigel Nicholson takes a fresh, novel, and penetrating look at human nature and why we do what we do at work.<br> <br> * Why we let one piece of bad news drive out 100 pieces of good.<br> * Create the "us versus them" problem by immediately classifying people as winners and losers.<br> * And think we can "tough things out," ignoring clues of disaster staring us in the face.<br> <br> The explanation of these, and hundreds of other perplexing, frequently unproductive ways that people think and act at work lies in understanding the emotional and behavioral hardwiring that is the legacy of our Stone Age ancestors.<br> <br> Nigel Nicholson is at the forefront of the exciting -- some would say radical -- new field of evolutionary psychology. While we have to cope with the modern world and the complexities of working in organizations, we do so with brains hardwired for Stone Age realities. Nicholson uses the ideas of evolutionary psychology to challenge many conventional beliefs about human nature with a more realistic picture of what motivates people and shapes their thoughts and actions at work.<br> <br> We constantly hear that there is n
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- Author
- Nicholson, Nigel
- Publisher
- New York: Crown Business
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780812931976
- Category
- self-help
- Subjects
- Management, Business, Finance
- Rating
- 3.8 / 5 (9 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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