Book Titles

What begins to matter more [than facts] is the ability to place these facts in context and to delivery them with emotional impact.

When facts become so widely available and instantly accessible, each one becomes less valuable.

The ability to encapsulate, contextualize, and emotionalize has become vastly more important in the Conceptual Age.

Successful businesspeople must be able to combine the science of accounting and finance with the art of Story.

Symphony… is the capacity to synthesize rather than to analyze; to see relationships between seemingly unrelated fields; to detect broad patterns rather than to deliver specific answers; and to invent something new by combining elements nobody else thought to pair.

People who hope to thrive in the Conceptual Age must understand the connections between diverse, and seemingly separate, disciplines.

Most inventions and breakthroughs come from reassembling existing ideas in new ways.

In a complex world, mastery of metaphor – a whole-minded ability that some cognitive scientists have called ‘imaginative rationality’ – has become ever more valuable.

…in a time of abundance, when the largest rewards go to those who can devise novel and compelling creations, metaphor-making is vital.

What conductors and composers desire… is the ability to marshal these relationships into a whole whose magnificence exceeds the sum of its parts.