If you're considering an MBA to further your business career, first read Daniel Pink's A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule The Future. An MFA may be a better choice.
While the modern business world has championed MBAs for the past several decades, the era of the number crunchers is over. Instead, the future "belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind," according to Pink. Creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers are the new shakers and movers. These people, including artists, inventors, designers, caregivers and big picture thinkers, will be the successful leaders of a new era: the Conceptual Age.
Even if another degree isn't on your list of goals, if you want to survive successfully in this new future, read this book. Pink has proven his mettle as an adept forecaster of major developing shifts. His last book, Free Agent Nation, predicted changes that are now standard in the workplace.
While the coming tsunami he suggests is complex, his premise is simple. For most of the past century, our society has touted a reductive, analytical approach to life. As part of the Information Age, the knowledge worker was the sought-after role for success. Now, due to a number of dramatic and subtle changes, a new approach to success ó and life ó is developing.
The old approach favored "left brain information-type activities that are still necessary