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About Daniel Pink
Daniel Pink is a best-selling author and an expert on innovation, competition, and the changing world of work.
His latest book, A Whole New Mind, charts the rise of right-brain thinking in modern economies and explains the six abilities individuals and organizations must master in an outsourced and automated world. Reviewers have described the book as “an audacious and powerful work,” “a profound read,” “right on the money,” and “a miracle.” A Whole New Mind is a New York Times and BusinessWeek best seller – and has been translated into 16 languages.
Dan’s first book, Free Agent Nation, about the rise of people working for themselves, was a Washington Post best seller and a business best seller in the U.S., Canada, and Japan. Publishers Weekly said that the book “has become a cornerstone of employee-management relations.”
His articles on work, business, and technology appear in many newspapers and magazines—including The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Wired, where he is a Contributing Editor. Dan has provided analysis of business trends on CNN, CNBC, ABC, NPR, and other networks in the U.S. and abroad. And as an independent business consultant, he's advised start-up ventures and Fortune 100 companies on recruiting, innovation, and work practices.
A free agent himself, Dan 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 United States Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich, an economic policy staffer in the United States Senate, a legal researcher in India, and a latrine builder in Botswana.
He received a BA with honors in linguistics from Northwestern University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a JD from Yale Law School.
Dan lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and their three children. He is now at work on his next two books: The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need, which will be released in Spring 2008, and another that will be published in 2009.
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Dan Pink’s key themes...
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How to Give Your Organization a New Brain
These are tumultuous times for organisations in the developed world: 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 organisations and putting a premium on abilities that have often been overlooked and undervalued.
- How smart organisations 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.
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Getting the Jump
As the Information Age gives way to the Conceptual Age, those organizations that make the transition first will have a decided advantage over the rest. Daniel Pink shows people how to take a fresh look at their organizations and themselves to develop "high concept" and "high touch" abilities that will power them past competitors. He shows what leading companies are doing to position themselves for the future.
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Under Pressure
The change wrought by technology and globalization is enormous and impacts the way we live, work and imagine our world. How will individuals and organisations survive amidst the chaos? 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.
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The New World of Work
The search for meaning is perhaps the greatest challenge — and opportunity — facing business and the public sector. 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.
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The Mind of an Entrepreneur, the Heart of a Storyteller
Pink’s work has an enthusiastic following. 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 the author of the critically acclaimed Free Agent Nation, A Whole New Mind, and The Adventures of Johnny Bunko (April 2008), 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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