Working on the "Right" side...

We have shifted our time to meet from the glorious middle of the day to the dawning of the new day. This change to the AMs has made it possible for our once absent brothers to return to our fold, and we rejoice....ok...enough of the sappiness.

So we started our early morning discussion with a brief look at the Village Voice's recent article on The King's College (check out the cover at this link http://www.villagevoice.com/home/index.php?page=toc and the article at this one http://www.villagevoice.com/arts/0615,aviv,72805,12.html). It was a rather positive article for The Village Voice, especially as it is reporting on a conservative institution. Mako posed the question as to whether King's would have a The Village Voice "stand" for distribution at the college...most of us thought not, but then there are surprises in life. Kirk, mentioned that they only had majors in business and politics...or what they call "PPE"...but that they have failed to engage the artistisc realm which launched us into our next topic.

A recent book by Daniel Pink (www.danpink.com ) called "A Whole New Mind" posits that the future, in the West at least, will be highly influenced and directed by "right-brain" people. He makes a compelling argument using current cultural evidence to this fact. We discussed the implications of the imaginative and creative minds (more right-brained activites) becoming more influential especially since all of us around the table live in this community here in NYC. One of the points that Pink brought up was how many businesses are not looking for MBA grads but are looking for MFAers. Imagine that? Could this be part of the artisitc revolution that we are eeing here in NYC?

Peace,
Kirk, Mako, Kevin, Bryan, and Ryann...