Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-194) and index.

Introduction: Time for Unmanagement -- The Competitive Advantage -- The Hierarchy -- Social Capital -- Genetic Tendencies -- Evolution and the Future -- Not a Utopian Fantasy -- The Critical Elements -- Who Are We? -- Human Nature -- The Importance of Organizational Context -- Fostering Human Nature -- Our Kaleidoscopic Mind -- A New Perspective -- Brain Versus Mind -- Levels of the Brain -- Our Innate Drives -- Implications -- Selecting Our Survival Strategies -- Self-Inflicted Pain -- Our Basic Options for Survival -- The Options and Innate Drives -- New Realities -- Fostering Supportive Social Interactions -- Rethinking -- The Social Capital Foundation -- Line-of-Sight Relationships -- Sense of Community -- Common Purpose -- Visualizing Wholes -- The Order Parameter -- Requisite Variety -- Using Bio-Logic -- Generating, Capturing, and Leveraging Intellectual Capital -- Knowledge Application Strategies -- The System's Lifeblood -- Social Capital Generation -- Intellectual Capital Generation -- Market Responsiveness -- No Longer Slaves of Our Own Making.

Unleashing Intellectual Capital reveals breakthrough principles for structuring Knowledge Age organizations. It helps leaders and knowledge professionals better understand how human nature supports or undermines voluntary workplace collaboration and innovation-vital sources of competitive advantage in business. Integrating the latest insights from diverse scientific disciplines, the book reestablishes some very basic truths about human innate behavior that determine how people best work together and are managed, or in some cases "unmanaged." Using understandable and practical models, Unleashing Intellectual Capital explains human nature and offers readers a comprehensive framework they can use to generate sustained high levels of intellectual capital within their own organizations while at the same time reducing workplace violence. Demonstrates clearly what ails most knowledge-based organizations today-the gap between unchanging human nature and management systems.Illustrates how the latest research in a variety of fields can redefine management.Provides the most comprehensive framework to date for generating, capturing and leveraging intellectual capital based on a thorough understanding of human nature.