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Daniel H. Pink is an American author and journalist

Journalist

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. From 1995 to 1997, he worked for Vice President

Vice President of the United States

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Al Gore

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in the capacity of chief speechwriter, and before that as an aide to Secretary of Labor

United States Secretary of Labor

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Robert Reich

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Personal history

Pink graduated from Bexley High School in Bexley, OH, he received a Bachelor's degree

Bachelor's degree

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from Northwestern University

Northwestern University

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and a Juris Doctor

Juris Doctor

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from Yale Law School

Yale Law School

Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Established in 1824, it offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D. and M.S.L. degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars, visiting researchers and a number of legal research centers...

. He has never practiced law.

Pink is the author of four books that focus on the changing workplace that have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list: A Whole New Mind: Why Right Brainers Will Rule the Future and Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Drive is a 2009 non-fiction book by Daniel Pink. In it, he suggests that motivation with rewards or fear of punishment, dominated by extrinsic factors what he refers to as money is broken...

as well as Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself and The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need.

His articles on business and technology have appeared in The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...

, Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review is a general management magazine published since 1922 by Harvard Business School Publishing, owned by the Harvard Business School. A monthly research-based magazine written for business practitioners, it claims a high ranking business readership among academics, executives,...

, Fast Company
Fast Company (magazine)
Fast Company is a full-color business magazine that releases 10 issues per year and reports on topics including innovation, digital media, technology, change management, leadership, design, and social responsibility...

and Wired
Wired (magazine)
Wired is a full-color monthly American magazine and on-line periodical, published since January 1993, that reports on how new and developing technology affects culture, the economy, and politics...

.

Books

2009: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Drive is a 2009 non-fiction book by Daniel Pink. In it, he suggests that motivation with rewards or fear of punishment, dominated by extrinsic factors what he refers to as money is broken...

, ISBN 978-1594488849
2008: The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need, ISBN 978-1594482915
2006: A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
A Whole New Mind
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-brainers Will Rule the Future is a book by Daniel H. Pink, author of Free Agent Nation. A Whole New Mind posits that the future of global business belongs to the right-brainers.-Key concepts:...

, ISBN 978-1594481710
2001: Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself, ISBN 978-0446678797

Articles

Japan, Ink: Inside the Manga-Industrial Complex (Wired, November 2007)
What Kind of Genius Are You? (Wired, July 2006)
Pomp and Circumspect (New York Times, June 4, 2005)
The Book Stops Here (Wired, May 2005)

External links

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