Daniel Pink
Author, Free Agent Nation and A Whole New Mind
A Whole New Mind
Daniel H. Pink is the author of "A Whole New Mind" which reveals the six abilities white-collar workers must master to survive in an outsourced, automated, upside-down world.
His first book, "Free Agent Nation," about the growing ranks of people who work for themselves, was a Washington Post nonfiction bestseller and business bestseller in the U.S., Canada, and Japan.
He is a Contributing Editor at Wired. His articles on business and technology have also appeared in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and other publications.
A popular speaker, he has lectured on work, business, and economic transformation to corporate, association, and university audiences around the world. He's provided analysis on dozens of television and radio broadcasts, including CNBC's "Power Lunch," ABC's "World News Tonight," NPR's "Morning Edition," and American Public Media's "Marketplace." And as an independent business consultant, he's advised start-up ventures and Fortune 100 companies on recruiting, business trends, and work practices.
A free agent himself, he held his last "real" job in the White House, where he served from 1995 to 1997 as chief speechwriter to Vice President Al Gore. He's also worked as an aide to U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, an economic policy staffer in the U.S. Senate, a legal researcher in India, and a latrine builder in Botswana.
He received a B.A., with honors in linguistics, from Northwestern University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. To his lasting joy, he has never practiced law.
He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their three young children.
Doctors. Lawyers. Engineers. That's what our parents told us to be when we grew up. But were Mum and Dad right? Actually, the future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind, people like artists, inventors, storytellers, caregivers. These right-brained people are the next business elite – the women and men who will power your organization. In this entertaining and provocative presentation, best-selling author Daniel Pink surveys evidence from around the world to reveal how the forces of Abundance, Asia, and Automation are nudging us into an era defined not by traditional "knowledge workers," but by creators and empathizers. He explains what this transformation means for your organization – and he offers hands-on tools and tips, as well as real-life examples, for how you can navigate this new terrain.
How to Give Your Organization a New Brain
These are tumultuous times for business: prosperity is growing – yet disruptive forces lurk just around the corner. Computers do jobs better and faster than high-paid professionals – while armies of overseas white-collar workers can do other jobs at a fraction of the cost. How can your organization survive amidst the chaos? Best-selling author Daniel Pink believes that the era of "left brain" dominance – and the Information Age that it engendered – is giving way to a new world in which "right brain" qualities – inventiveness, empathy, and meaning – will govern. And organizations that incorporate these new "right-brain" abilities will flourish.
The New World of Work: The search for meaning is perhaps the greatest challenge — and opportunity — facing business. As more people, including the growing number of non-retiring baby boomers, leave behind traditional employment to become free agents and work for themselves, the high touch qualities of design, storytelling and play become a means to attract and keep talented people . . . and loyal customers.