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 3.72 — 29,385 ratings — published 2000 29 editions |
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Blink by Malcolm Gladwell avg rating 3.67 — 21,266 ratings — published 2005 33 editions |
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Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell avg rating 4.00 — 8,016 ratings — published 2008 15 editions |
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Unleashing the Ideavirus by Seth Godin, Malcolm Gladwell avg rating 3.95 — 156 ratings — published 2000 6 editions |
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What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2009 |
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Gladwell Box Set by Malcolm Gladwell avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2006 |
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December 2008,
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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)
"Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them."
— Malcolm Gladwell (Outliers)
— Malcolm Gladwell (Outliers)
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