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The Next Big Idea

Rethinking Big Ideas: Daniel Pink on the Future of Work

The Next Big Idea

Next Big Idea Club

Education, Social Sciences, Science, Society & Culture

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

How will the pandemic change the way we organize our days? Our sense of purpose? Our commitments to others? So many questions! Who better to answer than Next Big Idea Club curator Daniel Pink, author of six books about motivation, leadership, and the changing nature of work.

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0:00.0

From Wundery, I'm Rufus Griskum, and this is a special episode of the next big idea. It's part four of a mini series we're calling rethinking big ideas

0:29.6

because if the crisis we're living through right now is good for anything,

0:33.2

it's for forcing us to take another look at what we thought we already knew.

0:37.8

I've been struggling with two questions lately.

0:39.7

The first has been pragmatic.

0:41.5

How can I effectively navigate working from home

0:44.3

when my very nearly perfect wife is doing aerobics

0:46.6

in the middle of the living room

0:47.8

and my three obstreperous boys

0:49.5

are either swan diving from couch to couch

0:51.9

or consuming Wi-Fi bandwidth as ravenously as Lucky Charms.

0:55.9

The second question is loftier, a chins drummer.

0:59.3

How is this crisis going to change us?

1:02.2

Will it change the way we work or perhaps the way we think about work?

1:06.2

Will it change in meaningful ways or even in subtle ways the way we relate to and care for

1:11.0

one another? Will it change the way we think about government?

1:14.4

There's no one I would rather ask these questions than our very own Next Big Idea Club

1:19.2

curator Daniel Pink. Dan is an intrepid intellectual intellectual spelunker who's gone deep on subjects like human motivation,

1:26.7

the increasing importance of creativity, catarintuitive strategies to change people's minds,

1:31.1

and most recently the scientific secrets of perfect timing and I could use a

1:35.2

dose of Dan's insight right about now. The LinkedIn Podcasts Network is sponsored by Zen Desk.

1:47.0

The LinkedIn Podcast Network is sponsored by Zen Desk.

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