Daniel Pink
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A deep researcher and compelling communicator, Daniel Pink is one of the foremost business minds of our day. He is the author of seven books on business, work, creativity, and behavior including The New York Times bestsellers The Power of Regret, When, and A Whole New Mind — and the #1 New York Times bestsellers Drive and To Sell is Human. Pink’s newest book The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward (February 2022) explores how we can enlist our regrets to make smarter decisions, perform better, and deepen our sense of meaning and purpose. It has been named one of the best books of 2022 by NPR, The Financial Times, Amazon, and Apple Books.
Regret is not dangerous or abnormal, a deviation from the steady path to happiness. It is healthy and universal, an integral part of being human. Regret is also valuable. It clarifies. It instructs. Done right, it needn’t drag us down; it can lift us up.
Daniel Pink
Pink’s award-winning books have been translated into 42 languages and have sold millions of copies worldwide. His TED Talk on the science of motivation has been viewed more than 40 million times. By making the leading business research of our day accessible, Pink pushes audiences to consider their lives in a new light and unlocks the ways top performers flourish at home, at school, and at work.
An acclaimed expert, Pink’s articles appear in publications such as The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, and The Atlantic. Thinkers50 has named him one of the top 10 business thinkers in the world numerous times. After co-producing and hosting the popular show “Crowd Control” on National Geographic Television, he now speaks directly to over 170,000 subscribers of his online show “The Pinkcast,” where he shares actionable tips for working smarter and living better. Provocative and inspiring, Pink shares irresistible stories and practical takeaways that give audiences compelling insights into how we can live richer, more engaged lives and the tools to make organizations more effective.
Daniel Pink: How Regret Makes Us Better
Daniel Pink on The Third Way: How to Handle Regrets
Daniel Pink – When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
Daniel Pink – Timing in Education and Healthcare
Daniel Pink – Outdated View of Sales
Daniel Pink – Information Parity
Daniel Pink on Beyond Resilience: A New Path to a Strong Culture
Dan Pink on The Surprising Path to the Good Life
Dan Pink on The Surprising Path to the Good Life
As the world emerges from the pandemic, organizations everywhere are reexamining their operations and rethinking their priorities. What do they stand for? How should they navigate what comes next? And how might they build cultures where people can do their best work and be their best selves?
In this provocative and practical presentation, #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Pink offers a fresh set of strategies. Pink will draw on an unprecedented two-year study of our most misunderstood emotion: regret. He will show that ignoring or rejecting regrets is a colossal mistake. Instead, confronting regrets systematically can deliver an array of organizational benefits. It can sharpen leaders’ decisions, speed learning and development, and boost individual and team performance.
In particular, he will show how the four core regrets shared by people around world contain the seeds of a reimagined and more powerful corporate culture. By understanding what people regret the most, we can learn what they value the most – and that can help organizations of every kind attract top talent, deepen employee engagement, and strengthen loyalty and commitment.
With Pink’s trademark blend of big ideas and smart takeaways, compelling stories and sharp humor, this presentation provides an urgent and inspiring map for flourishing in unpredictable times.
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How can we lead more satisfying personal and professional lives? As the world emerges from Covid, that question has become newly urgent for individuals and organizations alike. #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Pink has found the answer in an unlikely place.
In this provocative and engaging presentation, Pink will reveal a new approach to working smarter and living better by examining our most understood emotion: regret. He will show why the ever-popular “No Regrets” philosophy is utter nonsense. Everyone has regrets. And if we handle our regrets strategically, Pink says, they can be one of the most powerful ways we have to sharpen our decisions, elevate our performance, and deepen our sense of meaning.
To tell his stories and share his insights, Pink will draw on two massive and unprecedented research projects: The American Regret Project, the largest sampling of U.S. attitudes on regret ever conducted, and the World Regret Survey, which has collected more than 16,000 regrets from people in 105 countries. The result is a presentation packed with big ideas, practical takeaways, and a dose of inspiration.
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