ROBERTSON, Peter P., 2005. Always Change a Winning Team. SSRN Scholarly Paper. 24 January 2005. Rochester, NY. 2191887. Available from: https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=2191887 [Accessed 3 February 2024]. De nederlandse versie van dit document kan gevonden worden op: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2193925
This book investigates the boundaries within which people in organizations are prepared to explore and change, and the implications for management. It is all about a Choice that you make yourself. If you are convinced that leadership based on values and trust can and should go hand in hand with financial and social profit, then you will find many things here that will help you further develop and implement such a vision. If you are of a different opinion, you will find little here that tries to convince you to change your mind.
The Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) is reported to have said that somebody should not write a book until they have tried everything possible to prevent it being written. This is another in a long line of books that attempts to make a contribution to the leadership and management of an organization that, because of information technology, is suddenly faced with rapid acceleration. Why have I not prevented this book being written?
Largely because others have convinced me that virtually nothing has yet been written about applying concepts from ethology to the management of organizations. That is strange to say the least. You will have to decide for yourself whether I should have prevented the publication of this book.
Ethology is also known as comparative behavioral studies. This science has been around for more than 100 years and, after World War II, received widespread recognition thanks to Nobel Prize winners such as Konrad Lorenz, Nikolaas Tinbergen, and Karl von Frisch. My own definition of ethology is that it is “the science that, using the perspective of evolution, investigates how and why a specific behavior develops and what drives that behavior.” The society in which we live today has, from an evolutionary perspective, only been around for a very short time and differs markedly from the world of many million years ago in which our behavior originated.
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