A Whole New Mind is just what the diet calls for and is the name of a book written by Dan H. Pink. He's also the author of Free Agent Nation.
Besides working like most of you at being the best I can be as a real estate professional, I am also an active duty fire fighter and a Human Resource Professional of 35 years. All three professions require current certifications in order to actively practice. For the HR piece, I needed 60 CEUs in order to maintain my current status as an SPHR prior to the end of June. So I attended the Annual SHRM Convention in Las Vegas last month in order to assure meeting my recertification requirement. Mr. Dan Pink was the keynote speaker at the General Session before the 22,000 HR attendees.
His "moving from the information age to the conceptual age" was something I had difficulty understanding until I started reading his book. In his presentation, which was very entertaining, pointed and more meaningful than most, he made several interesting and astounding points. He said that 10% of IT jobs in the U.S. will move overseas in the next two years. In his book he makes several points regarding jobs and billions in wages moving from the U.S. to low-cost countries (India, China, etc. come to mind) within a few years. In his talk, he pointed out that we'll all get up one day and wonder what happened unless we do something about a number of these issues.
If you ever have a chance to hear him speak or have an opportunity to pick up his book, I encourage you to do so. His web site is http://www.danpink.com/. Check it out.
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