salon.com - 11/17/2008
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Nov. 17, 2008 | "Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is," business executive Robert Townsend once said, "and then walk off with the watch." Townsend didn't live long enough to witness the ascent of über-consultant Malcolm Gladwell, who walks off with ...
politicalwire.com - 11/17/2008
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Just out this week: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.
The author of The Tipping Point and Blink poses...
a provocative question in his latest book: Why do some people succeed, living remarkably productive and impactful lives, while so many more never reach their potential? As we've watched ...
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... one,’ he says, ‘not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses - ever makes it alone.’
There is nothing new in this theory, but Gladwell’s gift for interdisciplinary cross-dressing once again makes it look extremely fashionable. He has a genius - one no doubt due to many social factors - for making everything he writes seem like an impossible adventure.
Louis Bayard, writing in Salon, is skeptical and unimpressed:
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... This is why I can’t help but like the guy: He’s reached the “automatic bestseller list” point in his career, and what does he choose to do with that automatic audience, many of whom are management wanks? He chooses to explain how yes, nurture is more important than nature when it comes to genius and success. This sounds very “duh” to us (think of all the reams and reams of academic work and blogging that can be boiled ...
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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 11/13/2008 — Jason Zengerle profiles Malcolm Gladwell and reviews his new book: For all of his pop sensibility, Gladwell sees himself as something of a fuddy-duddy. If, as Michael Kinsley once observed, Al Gore was an old person’s idea of a young person, then ...
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sideshow.me.uk 11/21/2008 — Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker explains how and why they screwed us : The years just after the Second World War were a time of great industrial upheaval in the United States. Strikes were commonplace. Workers moved from one company to another. ...
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I believe the new Malcolm Gladwell book comes out today (it’s after midnight). Plan to try to wait for the paperback though, or try to get lucky and catch it at the library.
I’d love to read that new Jeff Pearlman book about the Cowboys in the 1990’s, I believe it’s ...
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Just out this week: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. The author of The Tipping Point and Blink poses a provocative question in his latest book: Why do some people succeed, living remarkably productive and impactful lives, while so many more never reach their potential?
As we've watched ...
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Malcolm Gladwell on the perfect Pepsis, perfect pickles, and the rise of Prego spaghetti sauce:
It’s quite old — September 2006 if the website’s datestamp is right — but interesting.
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Tech types are giddy with anticipation (well not all of them). Outliers: The Story of Success is out next week; Why Malcolm Gladwell Thinks We Have Little Control Over Our Own Success by Jason Zengerle is in New York Magazine this week.
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Curious about New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink and Tipping Point ? He has a new book, Outlier . You can read all about Gladwell and his new book here. Photo from the article.
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