There's presumably some kind of masochistic imperative at work here — the perverse compulsion of masochism, that is, without any of the perverse pleasure.
There's presumably some kind of masochistic imperative at work here the perverse compulsion of masochism, that is, without any of the perverse pleasure.
But there is an even more recent imperative at work in Beijing's calculations than the matter of overcoming the humiliations of the last two centuries, and its name is the US.
There is a new social and ethical imperative at work, and the two previous winners of this award testify to that: a super-cheap laptop for children in developing countries and the poster that helped get Obama elected.
It's hard not to think that there's some biological imperative at work in our passion for this rentable and temporary supremacy – some ancient advantage to having a panoramic view of the surrounding land which flickers within us as we take the express elevator up to the viewing platform.
"Yes, we have been lucky," House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (Ohio) said Thursday, "but luck is not an effective strategy for fighting terrorism". Whatever the merits of their argument -- and, where terrorism is concerned, it is prudent to keep cockiness at bay -- there is a political imperative at work as well.
But what I am learning over and again, and most recently here at HBR as I co-author pieces (thanks to Juan-Carlos Mendez, Tara Mohr, Bob Moesta and Whitney Hess) is that collaboration not only punches up the innovation quotient, there is a biological imperative at work.
