Author name: Dan Pink

Boston Globe columnist Penelope Trunk examines what the Conceptual Age means for younger workers.

To celebrate Amazon.com’s 10th anniversary (and his status as the 10th best-selling author during that decade), Jim Collins has recorded an excellent audio essay about the true source of excellence and the crucial difference between being busy and being disciplined.

Business Week asked B-schoolers for summer reading recommendations. Here’s how they responded: “MBA professors and students have loads of suggestions, from Daniel H. Pink’s A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age (Riverhead, 2005) to the upcoming release of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Scholastic, 2005), the

The frothy housing market has officially swelled into an irrationally exuberant bubble. Forget all those interest-only and skip-payments-when-you-want mortgages, which will inevitably lead to middle class families being being foreclosed on. Just consider this: Two-bedroom mobile homes in California are selling for a million bucks. Buyers don’t even own the land! (They rent it from

Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds has a smart, provocative, (and not entirely positive) take on A Whole New Mind. Worth reading.

The MFA is the new MBA tour makes another stop this week — in Pasadena, Calfornia, home of the Art Center Collge of Design. Here are the details on our Thursday night book talk: WHEN: Thursday, June 30, 2005 at 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Art Center College of Design, Hillside Campus/Ahmanson Auditorium, 1700 Lida Street, Pasadena,

Who says outsourcing is only for large companies? “A growing number of mom-and-pop operations, outsourcing experts say, are braving a host of potential complications and turning to places like Sri Lanka, China, Mexico and Eastern Europe to make clothes, jewelry, trinkets and even software programs,” according to The New York Times. The high concept and

One of the most widely circulated articles on the Internet this week is this AP story on the dimming luster of programming jobs. “As tens of thousands of engineering jobs migrate to developing countries, many new entrants into the U.S. work force see info tech jobs as monotonous, uncreative and easily farmed out — the

A Whole New Mind has crept south of the equator. The Brazil edition is just hitting stores there. It bears a different title and it’s been translated into Portuguese, but the content is the same. The Australia/New Zealand edition, with a slinky on the cover, comes out in a few weeks. Several more international editions,

By 2008, more than half the jobs in engineering could be done anywhere in the world, says a McKinsey study. What’s more, India already has as many young engineers as the U.S. And China has twice as many. Yet, according to this David Wessel column in the Wall Street Journal, engineering remains a viable career