A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age | 
 enlarge | Author: Daniel H. Pink
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
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Pages: 272
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 1573223085
Dewey Decimal Number: 158
EAN: 9781573223089
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Publication Date: March 24, 2005
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Lawyers. Accountants. Radiologists. Software engineers. That's what our parents encouraged us to become when we grew up. But Mom and Dad were wrong. The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind. The era of "left brain" dominance, and the Information Age that it engendered, are giving way to a new world in which "right brain" qualities-inventiveness, empathy, meaning-predominate. That's the argument at the center of this provocative and original book, which uses the two sides of our brains as a metaphor for understanding the contours of our times.
In the tradition of Emotional Intelligence and Now, Discover Your Strengths, Daniel H. Pink offers a fresh look at what it takes to excel. A Whole New Mind reveals the six essential aptitudes on which professional success and personal fulfillment now depend, and includes a series of hands-on exercises culled from experts around the world to help readers sharpen the necessary abilities. This book will change not only how we see the world but how we experience it as well.
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 Must be read in Portugal! July 5, 2008
A Book which should be read by everybody in Portugal . Mainly by the politicians.
Daniel Pink makes evident that the Information Society is the past to the west. The dazzling growing of India (and China in a nearly future) in IT will absorb all the world necessities of IT development. The future, Daniel Pink says, is in the right side of the brain: the one who does not labors with mathematic but with creativity and sociability.
I sincerely hope Portuguese Prime Minister to read this book!
 Average "Joe" Review July 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is not a critique on how this book was written; nor, on whether or not I agree with the theories and methods discussed - with an open mind, it all makes sense to me. What I will say is that Mr. Pink does a very good job at both going into exhaustive detail and summarizes topics into layman terms for everyone's benefit (overall good read and flow). I am 31 years and am concerned about oil prices, the housing crisis and the off-shoring of countless positions to cheaper labor overseas; Mr. Pink offers his richly researched thesis' on how we, as Western's, will maintain competitiveness in our evolving global economy and career landscape. In addition to the analysis the author provides, there are also many other resources cited to aid in your High-Touch journey. Open your mind, expand your thoughts and act.
It'll Blow Your Mind June 22, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Teachers, business owners, corporate bosses will ruminate about Dan Pink's book for years to come. As a high school English teacher, I was thrilled to find teaching ideas and useful websites to use in the classroom. Pink tells us to think in a whole new way--in a right-brain way. He explains how we have been functioning in a left-brain, high tech, information age and now it's time to find ways to be comfortable and productive with all that information. By emphasizing, design, play, meaning, empathy, story, symphony--Pink's so-called six senses--we can have professional and personal happiness and success. For instance, in Pink's chapter about design, he explains that design is a way of creating solutions and that each of us employs it each day. In order to enjoy home or work, give it something it didn't know it was lacking--a new color a rearrangement. I have done this in the classroom by creating a seascape and and soothing colors. Pink concludes that good design brings us pleasure. Reading Dan Pink's book will do the same.
Fabulous Insights - Mind Altering June 16, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I lived to see the coming of the space age and the flight to the moon. Because we found ourselves behind the Russians and sorely lacking in trained engineers we began to push college education and the "knowledge trades."
We have flourished technically as a result. Computers and the internet magnified that and many of us scrambled to get into those leading edge industries because that's where the future lay!
That time is all but past and a new age is ushering in. By that I certainly don't mean that the computer age is over - far from it. But we pay engineers from India and other Asian places, fifteen thousand dollars a year to do what Americans want many tens of thousands of dollars to do. The last time you called for computer tech support - did you talk to an American or to someone in Bombay, Inida?
This is not a book about New Age philosophy or any of that sort of thing. The author will make three fantasic points and arguments (which I don't want to give away here), which show that we have reached the peak of that era, and he shows that these trades WILL NOT be the hot trades of the future.
So if you're thinking about making sure that little Mary or Johnny has a career in the knowledge industries in their future, think again!
The book will show you that being a lawyer, accountant, or software engineer are NOT the best trades for the future.
There are not too many books that can actually change the outlook of your mind, but this is certainly one of them. It is very convincingly argued.
The first part of the book tells you why the old paradigm will not serve us well for the future.
The second part of the book tells you what skills you will need to develop and gives some ideas and exercise to facilitate their development.
I heartily recommend this book.
Very good book June 13, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed this book. It was referred to me by a "coach" to help me expand my comfort zone.
I would recommend it highly.
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