legal sanity

My posts here, here and here concern the importance of doing work we love as the worldwide business landscape flattens and changes. Over at his blog, Dan Pink points to this interesting article discussing how younger workers view the emerging conceptual age “in which data will be less important than creativity, and jobs will be more fulfilling.” Highlighting Pink’s work and his theory that professional success in our new economy will require a healthy dose of self-discovery, the piece depicts the traits we “need to develop to do well in the conceptual age.” They are: an aesthetic eye (design sense); empathy (emotional intelligence +); and the ability to negotiate and navigate (“to do something that is not routine, that doesn’t have a right answer”). It will be interesting to see if the American legal profession comes to acknowledge these markers of the new economic era and starts to value and foster such traits in its workforce.