Malcolm Gladwell
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Malcolm Gladwell is a United Kingdom-born, Canadian-raised journalist now based in New York City. He is a former business and science writer at the Washington Post. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He is best known as the author of the books The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (2000), Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005), and Outliers: The Story of Success (2008).
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The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell avg rating 3.69 — 40,623 ratings — published 2000 31 editions |
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Blink by Malcolm Gladwell avg rating 3.67 — 24,982 ratings — published 2005 38 editions |
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Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell avg rating 3.99 — 12,618 ratings — published 2008 20 editions |
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Unleashing the Ideavirus by Seth Godin, Malcolm Gladwell avg rating 3.91 — 183 ratings — published 2000 6 editions |
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What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell avg rating 3.77 — 43 ratings — published 2009 6 editions |
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Malcolm Gladwell Box Set by Malcolm Gladwell avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2010 |
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Gladwell Box Set by Malcolm Gladwell avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2006 |
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Obsessives, Pioneers, and Other Varieties of Minor Genius by Malcolm Gladwell avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009 |
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On the Money: The Economy in Cartoons, 1925-2009 by The New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009 |
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"[Outliers] was conceived in a period in which CEOs were bringing down huge paychecks, patting themselves on the back, and arguing that they deserved it and that their success was of their own making. I was curious about that — is it true? Is it a fair assessment to say that highly successful people deserve all the credit for their achievement?" ...More
"[Outliers] was conceived in a period in which CEOs were bringing down huge paychecks, patting themselves on the back, and arguing that they deserved it and that their success was of their own making. I was curious about that — is it true? Is it a fair assessment to say that highly successful people deserve all the credit for their achievement?" ...More
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"The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter."
— Malcolm Gladwell (Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking)
— Malcolm Gladwell (Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking)
"We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for."
— Malcolm Gladwell (Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking)
— Malcolm Gladwell (Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking)
"Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good."
— Malcolm Gladwell (Outliers)
— Malcolm Gladwell (Outliers)
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