....the author has put his finger on some vital attributes needed by
professionals in this hyper-competitive age

"[Gardner] is breaking fresh intellectual ground with Five Minds
for the Future."

It is time for IT Managers to exercise their minds - all five of them

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

Visionary....Gardner avoids overly-technical arguments as well as breezy
generalizations, proving his world-class reputation well-earned.

Anyone seeking an intellectual justification for life-long learning should
look no further.

improve your mind and ponder afresh how the hell we are going to
cope in the future... a delightful book.

[Professor Gardner] offers insight into the qualities of thinking that will allow people to survive and prosper in 21st century

An ambitious book... Five Minds is a manifesto, a public declaration about education as it should be.

"This welcome book challenges us to ensure our curriculum equips young people for the demands of a rapidly changing world."
- Professor Brian Boyd, University of Strathclyde

2008-03-27 Insight into five pivotal thinking habits

Howard Gardner is a man of many minds. The Harvard psychologist, MacArthur "genius grant" recipient and prolific author started a revolution when he claimed that human capability couldn't be reduced to a single metric. Rather than accepting IQ as the whole story of cognitive capacity, Gardner said people have "multiple intelligences," a notion he popularized in his 1983 book Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligence. Twenty-five years later, Gardner is still producing influential work on human mental skills and capabilities. In this clear, eminently useful book, Gardner describes five cognitive capacities that he predicts will be in most demand in the future and which everyone should practice. While he describes them metaphorically as "minds," these forms of thought are neither wholly innate nor immutable. All people can, through diligent practice, cultivate their disciplined mind, their synthesizing mind, their creative mind, their respectful mind and their ethical mind - and they should. Given accelerating technological change and vast increases in the flow of information and the necessity of working closely with many different kinds of people worldwide, getAbstract is of a mind to recommend this book to managers who are trying to think ahead.