Author name: Dan Pink

In its preview of the upcoming World Economic Forum in Davos, Business Week says, “The global management paradigm is clearly shifting from left to right brain thinking.”

Glenn Malone, a techie in the Seattle area, has put together del.icio.us bookmarks of all the web sites mentioned in A Whole New Mind. Meantime, in Singapore Dipankar Subba has created a mind map that summarizes the book’s key points. Cool. Many thanks to them and all the other readers who are remixing and refashioning

The American Dialect Society has selected its 2005 Word of the Year. It’s truthiness, “the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true.” Congratulations to (Northwestern grad) Stephen Colbert. Read more here. But I beg you: Never confuse a “whale tail” with the

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As one of the 14 or 15 losers who actually bought a Rocket e-book back in 1999, I’m surprisingly bullish on the new Sony Reader, which comes out this spring. What makes this version different from the e-bombs of yesteryear? On the Sony Reader, you can read PDFs. That, I think, will be its killer

The new year may be 1.6% over, but let me wish all of you a very happy 2006. I’ve been catching up and hiding out the past two weeks, but I’m now back in action. 2005 turned out to be an excellent year here at Pink, Inc, world headquarters. Although A Whole New Mind didn’t

In this month’s installment of “The Trend Desk” on Yahoo! Finance, low-tech weight loss, hidden economic powerhouses, the next puzzle craze, and why what’s good for your career may also be good for your love life

The Republican Bush appointee is my nominee for person of the week.

Holiday gift-giving may be something of an evolutionary adaptation, according a UC-Santa Barbara anthropologist.

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