Five Minds for the Future
by Howard Gardner
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Author: Howard GardnerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2009-02-01
ISBN: 1422145352
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
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Book Review: The rectangle does not fit the round hole
Summary: 1 Stars
This modularization of what man needs too succeed in the future just does not make sense to me. It feels more like a corporate agenda. Probably meant to touch a chord for CEO's and like types so that the author can be hired to lecture to their minions on how they should think.
I've read something like 150 pages of the book and I feel that I'm wasting my time.
One flaw is that the five mind concepts are quite interdependant and overlapping. That just tells me that is most probably not the right approach. Try to make sense of it and it will only pose more questions exponentially.
Proposals for guidelines I would make would be for example; there is not a formula for everything, uncertainty is what makes life fun, both people and disciplines should approach each other more "socially" for the bigger picture orchestration of human reality. Just as our concious mind comes about because of a wholistic effect of our cells that we'll never understand, the earth and our descendants need us to work for a better world. Seeing the state of the world today I would not trust a CEO to get the job done.
Summary of Five Minds for the Future
We live in a time of relentless change. The only thing that?s certain is that new challenges and opportunities will emerge that are virtually unimaginable today. How can we know which skills will be required to succeed?In Five Minds for the Future, bestselling author Howard Gardner shows how we will each need to master "five minds" that the fast-paced future will demand:
-The disciplined mind, to learn at least one profession, as well as the major thinking (science, math, history, etc.) behind it
-The synthesizing mind, to organize the massive amounts of information and communicate effectively to others
-The creating mind, to revel in unasked questions - and uncover new phenomena and insightful apt answers
-The respectful mind, to appreciate the differences between human beings - and understand and work with all persons
-The ethical mind, to fulfill one's responsibilities as both a worker and a citizen
Without these "minds," we risk being overwhelmed by information, unable to succeed in the workplace, and incapable of the judgment needed to thrive both personally and professionally.
Complete with a substantial new introduction, Five Minds for the Future provides valuable tools for those looking ahead to the next generation of leaders - and for all of us striving to excel in a complex world.
Howard Gardner - cited by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the one hundred most influential public intellectuals in the world, and a MacArthur Fellowship recipient - is the Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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