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Learning To Excel in the Modern Workplace, Part 3

Learning To Excel in the Modern Workplace, Part 3

     In the first two parts of this column I discussed Daniel Pink’s “A Whole New Mind”; a book that discusses how to create in a global marketplace. He introduced the “six senses” as a way to increase your high concept and high touch aptitudes. These aptitudes are related to right brain functioning, something he believes is crucial in the current conceptual era. 

      I touched briefly on the six senses: design, story, symphony, empathy, play, and the benefit of improving your perspective is well worth it.

Design: Become aware of your environment.

Keep a design notebook and the ones that don’t. If [...]

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High Concept and High Touch: Learning To Excel In the Modern Workplace

High Concept and High Touch: Learning To Excel In the Modern Workplace

    In Part 1 of this blog, I was discussing Daniel Pink’s book “A Whole New Mind”. His book focuses on the change in the American workforce in which left brain linear thinking jobs are being automated via technology and products that can’t be replicated immediately overseas.

     Pink asserts that we are entering the “the conceptual age”, whose main characters are the creator and meaning”. So the question becomes: How do I tap into that creative right side of my brain?

     After investigating that very question, Pink devised an answer by creating the “six senses”. These are six specific [...]

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