A Whole New Mind Quotes

“I say, 'Get me some poets as managers.' Poets are our original systems thinkers. They contemplate the world in which we live and feel obligated to interpret, and give expression to it in a way that makes the reader understand how that world runs. Poets, those unheralded systems thinkers, are our true digital thinkers. It is from their midst that I believe we will draw tomorrow's new business leaders."

--Sidney Harman, CEO Multimillionaire of a stereo components company”
― Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

“Design. Story. Symphony. Empathy. Play. Meaning. These six senses increasingly will guide our lives and shape our world.”
― Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

“Asking “Why?” can lead to understanding. Asking “Why not?” can lead to breakthroughs.”
― Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

“change is inevitable, and when it happens, the wisest response is not to wail or whine but to suck it up and deal with it.”
― Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

“Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate and to connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.”
― Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

“Empathy is an essential part of living a life of meaning.”
― Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

“Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn’t know it was missing.” —PAOLA ANTONELLI, curator of architecture and design, Museum of Modern Art”
― Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

“We are moving from an economy and a society built on the logical, linear, computerlike capabilities of the Information Age to an economy and a society built on the inventive, empathic, big-picture capabilities of what’s rising in its place, the Conceptual Age.”
― Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

“change is inevitable, and when it happens, the wisest response is not to wail or whine but to suck it up and deal with”
― Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

“A calling is the most satisfying form of work because, as gratification, it is done for its own sake rather than for the material benefits it brings,”
― Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

“A genuine smile involves two facial muscles: (1) the zygomatic major muscle, which stretches from the cheekbone and lifts the corners of the mouth; and (2) the outer part of the obicularis oculi muscle, which orbits the eye, and is involved in “pulling down the eyebrows and the skin below the eyebrows, pulling up the skin below the eye, and raising the cheeks.”7 Artificial smiles involve only the zygomatic major.”
― Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

“The Queen died. The King died.”

“The Queen died. And the King died of a broken heart.”

The first line was fact. The second line was a story. It placed the facts in context, added emotion and made us connect to it by making it memorable.”
― Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

“The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind—creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers, and meaning makers.”
― Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

“Here’s Ohga: “At Sony, we assume that all products of our competitors have basically the same technology, price, performance, and features. Design is the only thing that differentiates one product from another in the marketplace.”
― Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

“Mastery of design, empathy, play, and other seemingly “soft” aptitudes is now the main way for individuals and firms to stand out in a crowded marketplace.”
― Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

“business writer Polly LaBarre notes, “The United States spends more on trash bags than ninety other countries spend on everything.”
― Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

“Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.” —TWYLA THARP”
― Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

“The democratization of design has altered the competitive logic of businesses. Companies traditionally have competed on price or quality, or some combination of the two. But today decent quality and reasonable price have become merely table stakes in the business game—the entry ticket for being allowed into the marketplace. Once companies satisfy those requirements, they are left to compete less on functional or financial qualities and more on ineffable qualities such as whimsy, beauty, and meaning.”
― Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

“Today, the defining skills of the previous era—the “left brain” capabilities that powered the Information Age—are necessary but no longer sufficient. And the capabilities we once disdained or thought frivolous—the “right-brain” qualities of inventiveness, empathy, joyfulness, and meaning—increasingly will determine who flourishes and who flounders.”
― Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

“All great entrepreneurs are Systems Thinkers. All who wish to become great entrepreneurs need to learn how to become a Systems Thinker…to develop their innate passion for seeing things whole.”
― Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

“Most inventions and breakthroughs come from reassembling existing ideas in new ways.”
― Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

“They have an intuitive sense of what I call the “Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Theory of Innovation”: sometimes the most powerful ideas come from simply combining two existing ideas nobody else ever thought to unite.”
― Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

“Symphony, as I call this aptitude, is the ability to put together the pieces. It is the capacity to synthesize rather than to analyze; to see relationships between seemingly unrelated fields; to detect broad patterns rather than to deliver specific answers; and to invent something new by combining elements nobody else thought to pair. Symphony is also an attribute of the brain’s right hemisphere in the literal, as well as the metaphorical, sense. As I explained in Chapter 2, the neuroscience research conducted with functional MRIs has shown that the right hemisphere operates in a simultaneous, contextual, and symphonic manner. It concerns itself not with a particular spruce but with the whole forest—not with the bassoon player or the first violinist but with the entire orchestra.”
― Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

“To oversimplify just a bit, the left hemisphere handles what is said; the right hemisphere focuses on how it’s said—the nonverbal, often emotional cues delivered through gaze, facial expression, and intonation.”
― Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

“about 48 percent of GE’s software is developed in India.”
― Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

“Design—that is, utility enhanced by significance—has become an essential aptitude for personal fulfillment and professional success”
― Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

“humor represents one of the highest forms of human intelligence.”
― Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

“sorts, has reached similar conclusions: “All great entrepreneurs are Systems Thinkers. All who wish to become great entrepreneurs need to learn how to become a Systems Thinker…to develop their innate passion for seeing things whole.”14”
― Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

“Kemampuan terbaik saya adalah ketika saya tidak bisa melakukan sesuatu. Saya telah mengembangkan kemampuan untuk merasa kuat dan percaya diri dalam situasi-situasi ini. Saya merasa bebas untuk bergerak, mendengarkan nurani saya, belajar, bertindak, bahkan jika itu berarti saya akan melakukan kesalahan. Jika Anda menginginkan hidup yang kreatif, lakukan apa yang tidak bisa Anda lakukan dan resapi keindahan dari kesahalan-kesalahan yang Anda buat.”
― Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

“Select one day a week and remove yourself from the maw. Stop working. Don’t answer your email. Ignore your voice mail. Turn off your mobile phone. Most Western religions have established a Sabbath—the seventh day of the week—as a time of peace, reflection, and prayer.”
― Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future