While 21st-century students tend to presume that modern economic life (like the animal kingdom) is driven by an individualistic survival instinct and profit motive, Crisp thinks this assumption is wrong. Instead, as he explained to me last week, law firms only work if there is an intense collaboration and group spirit. He adds that this spirit is widely found in the animal kingdom too, particularly among creatures such as the meerkat. Armed with a copy of a book called An Introduction to Behavioral Ecology, this is the message he is trying to teach to business and law students.
尽管21世纪的学生倾向于假定,现代经济生活(像动物王国一样)的驱动力是个体的求生本能和盈利动机,但克里斯普认为这一假定是错误的。相反,正如他上周向我解释的那样,只有当存在通力合作和团队精神时,律师事务所才能运转得起来。他补充道,团队精神也广泛地存在于动物王国中,尤其是在猫鼬等动物当中。借助《行为生态学入门》(An Introduction to Behavioral Ecology)这本书,他正向攻读商业和法律的学生传达这一信息。
As endeavours go, this one is fascinating in its own right (even, or especially, for human lawyers). However, it is also noteworthy as part of a much bigger trend. One way to describe Crisp's effort to apply zoology to business education is that it is a form of “silo busting - the art of taking insights that have been developed in one institutional department or intellectual silo, and applying them somewhere else. If you look across the academic world these days, as well as in corporate life, it seems that silo busting is becoming all the rage.
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