The world headquarters of what its proprietor jokingly calls "Pink Inc" is in the attic of a redbrick house in north-west Washington, DC. Children's pictures decorate the walls; highbrow novels are jumbled up with business books. Daniel Pink spent much of the 1990s working for the Clinton administration, ending up as chief speechwriter for Al Gore. But in the late 1990s he decided to branch out on his own. He now makes his living as what he calls a "free agent"-doing a bit of consulting, giving speeches, writing articles (he is a contributing editor to "Wired") and books, including, in 2001, a book about people like himself, "Free Agent Nation: How America's New Independent Workers are Transforming the Way We Live". Mr Pink has no doubts about the changing balance of power in the corporate world: "Talented people need organisations less than organisations need talented people."
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