The phrase "a hidden driver of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an underlying factor or influence that is not immediately obvious but affects a situation or outcome.
Example: "The research revealed a hidden driver of employee dissatisfaction that had gone unnoticed for years."
Alternatives: "an underlying cause of" or "a concealed factor in".
As Daniel Goleman writes in Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence, a fascinating new book he'll publish this fall: "Overloading attention shrinks mental control.
Professor Daniel Goleman, author of the immensely popular and influential revision of IQ called Emotional Intelligence, published in 1995, has just written a new book called Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence.
The following is an excerpt from Daniel Goleman's new book, "Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence".
These days, however, people are inundated by more distractions than ever before, wrote Goleman, who also authored Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence "Tech gadgets and apps invade our concentration in ways the brain's design never anticipated".
Focus: The hidden driver of excellence.
From "Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence".
I suffered from this attention deficit as I was writing my book Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence.
In his new book, "Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence," he cleverly employs short chapters littered with case studies to engage professionals swimming against a tide of electronic correspondence.
Writing in The Harvard Business Review, Daniel Goleman author of Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence, points to recent research in neuroscience showing that we focus our attention in many ways, drawing on different neural pathways.
Daniel Goleman also recently wrote about the topic in Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence, in which he explores the benefits of mindfulness meditation, focused preparation and recovery, positive emotions and connections, and mental "prosthetics".
