A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future | 
 enlarge | Author: Daniel H. Pink
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
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Rating:  191 reviews
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Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 1594481717
Dewey Decimal Number: 153.35
EAN: 9781594481710
Publication Date: March 7, 2006
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The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic "right-brain" thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't. Drawing on research from around the world, Pink outlines the six fundamentally human abilities that are absolute essentials for professional success and personal fulfillment-and reveals how to master them. A Whole New Mind takes readers to a daring new place, and a provocative and necessary new way of thinking about a future that's already here.
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 Whole New Mind Blowing - Must Read and Do July 6, 2005
Umesh Vyas (New Delhi, India)
19 out of 21 found this review helpful
I am associated with 2 of threats mentioned by Daniel Pink, Asia and Automation. I work in India, and work with Outsourcing including software development and Business Process Outsourcing. And I can strongly identify with the solutions - particularly - Story, Symphony, Play, and above all Meaning.
This book identifies Mega-Trends very well and offers deep and meaningful solutions. It challenges the traditional focus on linear, analytical, reductionist thinking and brings forth the need to holistic, lively, and value driven approaches.
I have experienced some of the dilemmas listed and unconsciously experienced some of the solutions.
I also find an echo of Eastern spritualism and philosophy in this book. Krishna, the teacher in Gita, comes to mind as a good reference for Play, Story, Symphony and Meaning.
This book is timely, enjoyable, relevant, and very applicable.
A Must Read and a Must Do for all of us preparing for a "Flatter World"
Why right brain people MAY be in demand in the future March 11, 2006
John C. Dunbar (Sugar Land, TX United States)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I enjoyed reading this book and learned much from it. The author gives a lot of examples and references to his points. He believes that the right-brained people (creatives) will ascend in importance and left-brained people (accountants, programmers, MBA's) will descend because their information processing skills will be offshored or computerized.
I don't think it will be the big shift that he claims but I do believe that he is making an important series of observations and predictions. I don't think we'll make a large shift because the left-brain functions are required to generate much of our GDP and that currency and wage fluctuations will equalize how much we do and how much is offshored.
I highly recommend this book. It is a fast and easy read. Please visit the web sites that he lists in his exercises at the end of most chapters. I found them quite delightful.
John Dunbar
Sugar Land, TX
build your skill set for the new Renaissance March 26, 2005
M. Vance (Austin, TX United States)
19 out of 28 found this review helpful
This book presents a compelling case that in order to thrive in this age of abundance, automation, and Asia (i.e., Asian outsourcing) -- we will need to build a new skill set of six right-brained thinking tools: Design, Story, Symphony, Empathy, Play, and Meaning. Similar to the skills of Leonardo da Vinci espoused by Michael J. Gelb in "How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci", this book presents justification that a new set of skills will be needed in order to succeed in a *new* Renaissance. Pink also includes inspiring mini how to guides for building each of the six skills to help get you started.
I have seen the future, and it is Pink April 3, 2005
David Garfinkel (San Francisco, CA USA)
9 out of 14 found this review helpful
Think about it. We have nowhere else to go.
Dan Pink is a visionary with the gift of being able to lay out his ideas in terms that everyone else can understand. While this book will be scary for many, it serves as fair warning for those who are otherwise headed for a very unpleasant collision with reality.
When I say "we have nowhere else to go," I mean, as Americans, it is only by using our unique but highly undervalued (by most people, until now) innovation skills that we can even hope to maintain a high standard of living in the future.
According to the writings of the man after whom the Pareto Principle was named, approximately 80% of any group that sees or hears about this book will abhor it, and the remaining 20% will embrace and exploit what they learn from it -- and profit along the way.
Your future is up to you, far more than you may have realized up until now. The only real question you should be asking yourself is:
What are you going to do about it?
David Garfinkel
www.copynewsletter.com
Our emerging Age is the Conceptual Age April 18, 2005
Steven B. Epstein (Phoenix, AZ)
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
Dan Pink's book "A Whole New Mind" has joined my `must have' list for my MBA students. It joins "Cluetrain Manifesto", "Rules for Revolutionaries", and "Crossing the Chasm."
5 star reviews that have preceded me, have explained the outline and thrust of the book quite well. I concur with them.
One highlight item that I would add, is when Pink went to India and met brilliant MBA's that make $14,000 per year, and enjoy a lifestyle at relatively 10x in many measures to the US worker at $25,000.
It is refreshing to have a journalist put names, and faces, and dreams to some of the emerging high middle class of India.
Pink is not being a 21st Century `Cassandra' by detailing his three "A's" of Asia, automation, and abundance. His early chapters lay out the threat and opportunity of Asia creating tens of millions of middle class workers and entrepreneurs, in India and China particularly. His general data and postulations for automation and abundance are spot on.
But rather than write a book like Reich or Thurow, demanding protectionism, Pink devotes roughly 2/3's of his book on what a thoughtful US or EU citizen should do, or assist their children in doing or learning to do.
In the later half of the book, Pink outlines and defines how Design, Story, Symphony, Empathy, Play, and Meaning will give "First World" citizens the acuity to respond to globalization, rapid technological change, and changing demographics.
I was very fortunate to meet Dan Pink in Phoenix, the week beginning his book tour. His speech for 80 to 100 Phoenix based designers and graphic artists, was terrific.
His line of the `MFA is the new MBA' was the key tag line, that caused many of the artists in the room, and all the `quants' in the room to recognize they have a `designed' and collaborative future together.
It is my hope that this book will have the wide audience that Alvin Toffler's `Future Shock' had, decades ago. Pink's device of the `Conceptual Age' following the `Information Age' might just earn him a citation in the pattern of Tom Wolfe, who labeled the 1970's as the "Me-Decade".
I highly recommend the book. As a graduation gift for high school, college, and graduate students, I recommend it even more.
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