4 Quotes & Sayings By Dan Pink

Dan Pink is the best-selling author of "A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule The Future" and "To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others." His most recent book, "Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us" was named one of the best business books of 2011 by the Wall Street Journal. He is also the author of the bestseller "When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing." Pink's work has been featured in The New York Times, The Economist, and Newsweek. He has appeared on Charlie Rose, NPR's All Things Considered, and CNN as well as in Wired, Fortune, and the Harvard Business Review. He lives in New York City.

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Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce? Dan Pink
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The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills that is going to be most necessary: you have to be able to read with rigor and write with clarity. You have to be able to communicate. To make an argument, whether it's in a written piece or in front of a group of people. Dan Pink
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Health care is a design problem. Dependence on foreign oil is a design problem. To some extent, poverty is a design problem. We need design thinkers to solve those problems, and most people who are in positions of political power are not design thinkers, to put it mildly. Dan Pink