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A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age

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Accountants.

Radiologists.

Software engineers.

That's what our parents encouraged us to become when we grew up.

But Mom and Dad were wrong.

The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind.

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Author: Daniel H. Pink

Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover

Date: Mar. 24, 2005

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