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Mike Carruthers:
In looking forward to your future success it's important to note
that the information age appears to be ending. In other words…
Dan Pink:
The abilities that used to get you ahead; the logical, linear,
computer-like, those abilities are still necessary but they're
no longer sufficient.
Daniel
Pink, author of the book, A
Whole New Mind…
And if
you really want to get ahead today you have to master a set
of abilities that we've often overlooked and undervalued. And
these abilities, I think, are characteristic of the right side
of our brain; they are empathic, holistic, artistic.
There
are three forces at work in this economy that make these skills
so important.
One of
them is abundance. We're so wealthy you can't sell a product,
a service or an experience that just works, it has to be cool
and nifty and beautiful and transcendent. At the same time we
have Asia. Asia is all sorts of left-brain knowledge work; basic
computer programming, basic accounting, going over seas. The
third factor is automation. All kinds of white-collar work is
being automated.
In short,
Daniel says technical routine ability is becoming less important
and creative artistic ability is becoming more important.
General
Motors, the head of General Motors North America, Bob Lutz says
that he thinks that General Motors is in the art business. It's
art, entertainment and mobile sculpture that coincidentally
happens to provide transportation. Well, I mean if General Motors
is the in art business then all of us in some fashion are in
the art business.
Tomorrow
how abundance has changed our economy, I'm Mike Carruthers and
that's Something You Should Know.
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