A Whole New Mind: Why Right-brainers Will Rule the Future

Brief Description: 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, [the author] outlines the six fundamentally human abilities that are absolute essentials for professional success and personal fulfillment-and reveals how to master them. Publisher Marketing: 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?" Review Citations:

Publishers Weekly 03/02/2009 pg. 59 (EAN 9781423377009, Compact Disc)

Harvard Business Review 05/01/2005 pg. 30 (EAN 9781573223089, Hardcover)

Ingram Advance 01/01/2005 pg. 52 (EAN 9781573223089, Hardcover)

Booklist 03/15/2005 pg. 1248 (EAN 9781573223089, Hardcover)

Library Journal 04/04/2005 (EAN 9781573223089, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Pink, Daniel H Daniel H. Pink is the author of four books, including the long-running New York Times bestsellers "Drive "and "A Whole New Mind". His books have been translated into thirty-three languages and have sold more than a million copies in the United States alone. Pink lives with his family in Washington, D. C.