If you're stengths lie in any of the arts ... you'll be especially interested in the latest business buzz. You've likely heard it too.
Growing demands for more right-brain skills – the kind that cannot be
sent offshore … has Daniel H. Pink predicting the coming of a surprising new set skills in A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future.
In Pink’s words …
The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind — computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who could craft contracts, MBAs who could crunch numbers.
The left-brain skills … logic … analytic … and linear skills … are fast giving way to right-brain skills … such as ethics … caring for others … discerning patterns … and recognizing the bigger picture. Have you seen the shift too?
Certainly this news will be well received by graduates of arts … and yet it needn’t be discouraging to business school graduates.
It seems to me that the past era led us at times to believe that decisions can be reduced to numbers on a chart. Leaders called for more science as if secrets lie in that field only … and computer technicians told us exactly what to type in to open codes Online.
We’ve likely always benefited more when both sides of the brain factor into business … and yet the arts tend to get highly underrated.
We value hard skills more with higher pay and tend to brush off soft skills as … well the label … soft … already says it all.
That’s why I suggest we exchange hard and soft labels … for what I term smart skills. Why now survey your right brain smart skills to see how you’ll rate in Pink’s predicted new business world.
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