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Books : A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual AgeIn association with Amazon.comby: Daniel H. Pink  List Price: $24.95 Price: $15.40 You Save: $9.55 (38%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Format: Bargain Price Label: Amazon Remainders Account Manufacturer: Amazon Remainders Account Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 272 Publication Date: March 24, 2005 Publisher: Amazon Remainders Account Studio: Amazon Remainders Account Sales Rank: 124714 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Lawyers. Accountants. Software engineers. That’s what Mom and Dad encouraged us to become. They were wrong. Gone is the age of “left-brain” dominance. The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: designers, inventors, teachers, storytellers—creative and empathic “right-brain” thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn’t. Drawing on research from around the advanced world, Daniel Pink outlines the six fundamentally human abilities that are essential for professional success and personal fulfillment—and reveals how to master them. From a laughter club in Bombay, to an inner-city high school devoted to design, to a lesson on how to detect an insincere smile, A Whole New Mind takes listeners to a daring new place, and offers a provocative and urgent new way of thinking about a future that has already arrived. “This book is a miracle. Completely original and profound.” — Tom Peters, author of In Search of Excellence “A very important, convincingly argued and mind-altering book.” — Po Bronson, author of What Should I Do With My Life? Average Rating:
 Rating:  - SuperbA great primer for today and the future of creativity in business. Trip Allen Director and CXX Egyii Singapore Rating:  - An Italian EmisphereI am italian and i read this book in summer 2007. There is no italian edition for this book so I read it in English. And by reading the book, and reading it in english, I understood something quite interesting: I came to the conclusion that I read faster English books than Italians. I have also realized that when you read a foreign language the Right emisphere is much more involved because even if you don't know some specific words, you give much more importance to the context and ... Read More Rating: - Dan Pink nails it.Dan Pink's AWNM is outstanding. Integrating the right and left brains creates an integrated person. An integrated person can engage the world with greater understanding and ability to make a positive difference. The biggest drawback was the cutout of the head on the cover, which caught on to everything, including my fingers as I tried to read the book. A small nuisance for a worthwhile read. Rating:  - Compelling information, little applicationPink's premise: Business leaders seeking an edge in our competitive, tech-saturated world will require skills like design, empathy and storytelling to put their products and services out front. But the author's prescription for developing these sensibilities--like taking a drawing class or walking a labyrinth--are a bit pie-in-the-sky. Let's face it: attending a "Laughter Workshop" won't help me design the next iPhone. Still, the book has some interesting insights and anecdotes, like the inner-city, ... Read More Rating: - Why every artist should read this book!In a very reader friendly, easy and entertaining writing style, Daniel Pink explains why the left-brained (or as he calls them "Left-Directed Thinkers") have ruled supreme in the last few decades. The computer programmers, engineers, accountants and attorneys that many parents hoped we'd become. But with the "Big 3" of Abundance, Asia & Automation, many of those jobs are moving to India, China and the like. So if those jobs are on the decline, what does he think is on the rise? (And ... Read More Browse for similar items by category: 
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