Next stop on our trip through Dan Pink’s book, A Whole New Mind, is empathy. Dan writes, “Empathy allows us to see the other side of an argument, comfort someone in distress, and bite our lip instead of muttering something snide. Empathy builds self-awareness [and]… allows us to work together”. There is an appropriate… Read More
Historically, work has been considered drudgery. It didn’t need to be fun. In fact, if it appeared as though you were having fun, it was generally assumed that you weren’t being very productive! Many of us have found, and Dan Pink has validated, that the opposite is true. People work harder and are more creative… Read More
In our continuing look at the six senses of the Concept Age, it’s story time! Dan Pink references Mark Turner, cognitive scientist and author of The Literary Mind, who says “Most of our experience, our knowledge and our thinking is organized as stories”. Stories are fundamental to human learning and recall. In a world… Read More
Design is the first of the six Concept Age senses that we’re going to explore. Dan Pink quotes John Heskett when describing design as “a combination of utility and significance”. Utility is something that is prevalent in the market today. Unless you’re on the bleeding edge, most products do what they say they’re supposed to… Read More
In my last entry I said that we’d be talking about the skills needed to be successful in the Concept Age. Actually, in A Whole New Mind, Dan Pink refers to senses. This is an important distinction. Normally, we can all see, hear, smell, touch, and taste. Some of us have more heightened sensitivities… Read More
Dan Pink’s new book, A Whole New Mind, introduces so many important ideas that I’ll be doing a series of blog entries on it. Consider the next several posts your cliff notes! Dan’s premise (and the subtitle of the book) is that we are moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age. The Information… Read More
Purple Cow has really gotten me thinking about compromise in product development. As Seth Godin writes, “Compromise is about sanding down the rough edges to gain buy-in from other constituencies. Vanilla is a compromise ice cream flavor…But vanilla is boring. You can’t build a fast-growing company around vanilla.” Well, the problem is that you can’t… Read More
I recently read Seth Godin’s book Purple Cow. Generally speaking, cows are brown or black and they basically all look alike. What if during your drive through the countryside you saw a purple cow? Now, that would be remarkable! Purple Cow is about actually BEING remarkable – not just having a great marketing plan or… Read More