theregister.co.uk - 12/17/2008
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Have you ever had the nagging sense that there's something not quite right with the adulation that follows Malcolm Gladwell - the author of Tipping Point ? But you couldn't quite put your finger on it? We're here to help, dear reader. Gladwell gave two vanity "performances" in the West End - ...
newyorker.com - 12/13/2008
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newyorker.com —
On the day of the big football game
between the University of Missouri Tigers and the Cowboys...
of Oklahoma State, a football scout named Dan Shonka sat in his hotel, in Columbia, Missouri, with a portable DVD player. Shonka has worked for three ...
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Malcolm Gladwell: How do we hire when we can't tell ...
clivecrook.theatlantic.com - 12/17/2008
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clivecrook.theatlantic.com —
I am steeling myself to approach "Outliers", Malcolm
Gladwell's latest. I am not an admirer, but I...
can hardly complain about this further contribution to the culture--as I hope to in due course--without having read it. Since the first chapter of ...
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Brooks on Gladwell
michaelyon-online.com - 12/14/2008
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michaelyon-online.com —
Soldiers and their humor: living at the edge
of civilization requires a highly developed sense of irony....
Dumb signs all over Iraq and Afghanistan are always good for a chuckle. This sign just came to me from a friend in Ramadi, Iraq. Before the ...
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Dumb Signs
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... an obscure market researcher called Howard Moskowitz. Who? On his own website, Howie calls himself "a well-known experimental psychologist in the field of psychophysics". Yet Gladwell describes Moskowitz' market testing of varieties of soup as if he was an unsung genius of the 20th century. All this takes up 15 minutes, but it's so repetitious and predictable, it seems to take about three times as long. (So much for the dazzling oratory Guardian leader writers admire.) More here *************************** BrookesNews Update ...
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... an obscure market researcher called Howard Moskowitz. Who? On his own website, Howie calls himself "a well-known experimental psychologist in the field of psychophysics". Yet Gladwell describes Moskowitz' market testing of varieties of soup as if he was an unsung genius of the 20th century. All this takes up 15 minutes, but it's so repetitious and predictable, it seems to take about three times as long. (So much for the dazzling oratory Guardian leader writers admire.) More here Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist ...
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