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A Whole New Mind
Doctors. Lawyers. Engineers. That's what our parents told us to be when we grew up. But were Mom 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.
Pink will show you:
- Why "high tech" abilities are giving way to "high concept" and "high touch" talents
- The six essential aptitudes necessary for thriving in this emerging world
- Why the widespread search for meaning is perhaps the greatest recruiting challenge – and the largest business opportunity – of our times
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.
Pink will show you:
- How the forces of Abundance, Asia, and Automation are altering the competitive logic of organizations and putting a premium on abilities that have often been overlooked and undervalued.
- How smart companies are using the arts – design, storytelling, and play – to pull ahead of the competition.
- The six essential right-brain aptitudes that now mark the fault line between success and failure
What Talent Wants: Inside the Hearts and Minds of the Free Agent Workforce
Daniel Pink, author of the bestselling Free Agent Nation, offers an unprecedented look at the people who can make or break your organization. Based on hundreds of in-depth interviews with people who have abandoned organizational life to work for themselves, this provocative and entertaining presentation will give you unique insight into what makes talented people tick. The key to keeping great people is to learn why great people often want to leave – and to understand what they're getting working for themselves that they feel they can't get working for you. At this presentation you will learn:
- The key causes of free agency – and the management lessons they yield
- The four animating values of free agents – and how organizations can succeed by honoring these values
- The seven "dirty words" you should banish from your organizational vocabulary to get talented people to work with you
The Boomer Workforce and the End of Retirement as We Know It
Over the next 18 years, millions of baby boomers will turn 60. Dan Pink explains what this seismic demographic shift means for individual careers and for organizations needing to rethink their approach to human resources. Drawing on his books Free Agent Nation and A Whole New Mind, Pink delves in to how today's seniors can harness the power of their right brains and use it to remain competitive in the workforce on their own terms while phasing themselves into retirement. In doing so, these boomer free agents are changing company business models and flipping the script on fundamental labor issues such as education, training, and Social Security. As a free agent himself, Pink's energetic, forward-thinking presentation will offer boomers in the audience practical yet inspirational advice for turning their golden years into paths to greater professional success and personal fulfillment. It will also provide the all-important insights to companies who need to know how this trend will affect workforce management for years to come.
The Future of the Software Industry
The high-tech companies that survived the dot-com bust are still fretting about the future. Why? Low-cost competition from India and China – and legions of talented programmers willing to work for one-sixth of western wages – have presented the industry its greatest challenge in a generation. How should software companies respond? By radically rethinking the who, what, and how of their business. Drawing on his visits to Indian software firms as well as his own two-year study of the American workforce, best-selling author and Wired contributing editor Daniel Pink explains that the Information Age is ending and that a new era – the Conceptual Age – is rising in its place. Surviving in this new age demands a new approach to business. From Daniel Pink you’ll learn:
- Why outsourcing is over-hyped in the short-term and under-hyped in the long-term
- Why the software jobs that remain in the U.S. will look more like artistic work than scientific work
- How every company, no matter how small, can and must become a multi-national
About Daniel Pink
Design, story, empathy, play and meaning are highly prized today. Dan Pink shows how to use "right brain" strategies to attract talent and customers.
Best-selling author Daniel Pink provides a snapshot of the new world of work where "right brain" thinking trumps "left brain" thinking and a host of profound new rules and strategies apply. As employees search for meaning - and opportunity - the high touch qualities of design, storytelling and play become a means to attract and keep talented people . . . and loyal customers. Pink has released a trio of books -- A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Rule the Future, Free Agent Nation, and The Adventures of Johnny Bunko -- that are reshaping how organizations operate and how individuals navigate their careers and he has developed an enthusiastic following. He is currently a contributing editor at Wired and Yahoo! Finance, his articles and essays have also appeared in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review and Fast Company. He is working on his next book -- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us -- which will be released in January 2010. He continues to be a frequent guest on television and radio programs, and a consultant to companies large and small on human resources, communications and innovation.
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