Five Minds for the Future- Howard Gardner

Five Minds for the Future was recently released by Harvard Business School Press. The synthesizing mind, one of the five minds, was identified as a "breakthrough idea" by Harvard Business Review in 2006. Read a review of this book in the Financial Times.

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/hbr/hbr_current_issue.jhtml?issue_id=s10826stg&x=10&y=5


They include:

The Disciplinary Mind: the mastery of major schools of thought, including science, mathematics, and history, and of at least one professional craft.

The Synthesizing Mind: the ability to integrate ideas from different disciplines or spheres into a coherent whole and to communicate that integration to others.

The Creating Mind: the capacity to uncover and clarify new problems, questions and phenomena.

The Respectful Mind: awareness of and appreciation for differences among human beings and human groups.

The Ethical Mind: fulfillment of one's responsibilities as a worker and as a citizen.