We live in a time of vast changes that include accelerating globalisation, mounting quantities of information, the growing hegemony of science and technology and the clash of civilisations. Those changes call for new ways of learning and thinking in school, business and the professions. In Five Minds for the Future, noted psychologist Howard Gardiner defines the cognitive abilities that will command a premium in the years to come:
- the disciplinary mind
- the synthesising mind
- the creating mind
- the respectful mind
- the ethical mind
Armed with these well-honed capacities, directors will be equipped to deal with what is expected in the future - as well as what cannot be anticipated. Without these "minds", individuals will be at the mercy of forces they can't understand - overwhelmed by by information, unable to succeed in the workplace and incapable of marking judicious decisions about personal and professional matters. |