Five Minds for the Future

We live in a time of changes that include accelerating globalization, mounting quantities of information, the growing hegemony of science and technology, and the clash of civilizations. Those changes call for new ways of learning and thinking in school, business, and the professions. In this audiobook, psychologist Howard Gardner defines the cognitive abilities that will command a premium in the years ahead:

• The disciplinary mind - master of major schools of thought.
  
  
• The synthesizing mind - ability to integrate ideas.
  
  
• The creating mind - capacity to uncover and clarity problems, questions and phenomena.
  
  
• The respectful mind - awareness of and appreciation for differences among human beings.
  
  
• The ethical mind - fulfillment of one's responsibilities.

BusinessWeek

. . . a detailed and thoughtful description of the multifaceted brains that are likely to be most valued in the coming decades.

Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Senior Director of Harvard Project Zero. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and twenty-one honorary degrees, he is the author or more than twenty books, including Changing Minds, Good Work, and Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons.