... "right-brain" qualities of inventiveness, empathy, joyfulness, and meaning--increasing will determine who flourishes and who flounders. Dan Pink, Author
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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. These people--artists, inventors, designers, storyteller, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinkers--will now reap society's richest rewards and share its greatest joys. Dan Pink, Author
...the largest gains have been in jobs that require "people skills and emotional intelligence" and "imagination and creativity". Dan Pink, Author
‘Out of Our Minds’: there is a paradox. Throughout the world, companies and organizations are trying to compete in a world of economic and technological change that is moving faster than ever. They urgently need people who are creative, innovative and flexible. Too often they can’t find them. Why is this? What’s the real problem — and what should be done about it? Out of Our Minds answers three vital questions for all organizations that have a serious strategic interest in creativity and innovation.
Read more Growing Up Digital, bestselling author Don Tapscott profiles this net generation and how its use of digital technology reshaping the way society and individuals interact. Unlike the Baby Boomers who grew up with the passive medium of television, children today, in ever-growing numbers, are embracing interactive media such as the Internet, CD-ROM, and video games.
Read more Heather MacTaggart discusses the fact that a factory-production model of education still exists, although we are now well into a knowledge-based economy era.
Heather MacTaggart discusses the need for schools to educate students for the realities of today and the possibilities of
Heather MacTaggart speaks about the roles that community and home must play in our system of education, particularly in the context of a rapidly changing world.
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