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yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 12/9/2008

The Malcolm Gladwell Backlash

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I’ve really been taken aback by a lot of the hostile response to Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers that I’ve read. This isn’t a book without flaws. But the flaws in the book are flaws that have long been present in Gladwell’s writing. And at the same time, Gladwell ...

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newyorker.com - 12/8/2008

Malcolm Gladwell: How do we hire when we can't tell who's right for the job?

— 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 ... (more) Malcolm Gladwell: How do we hire when we can't tell ...

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newyorker.com - 12/13/2008

Malcolm Gladwell: How do we hire when we can't tell who's right for the job?

— 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 ... (more) Malcolm Gladwell: How do we hire when we can't tell ...

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theregister.co.uk - 12/17/2008

The dumb, dumb world of Malcolm Gladwell • The Register

— theregister.co.uk — 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 ... (more) The dumb, dumb world of Malcolm Gladwell • The Register

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Luck, Hard Work and Meritocracy
Ross Douthat — There's some interesting discussion around David Leonhardt's review of Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers - and particularly around this passage: These two stories about Gladwell are both true, and yet they are also very different. The first personalizes his success. It is the classically American version of his career, in that it gives individual characteristics -- talent, hard work, Horatio Alger-like pluck -- the starring role. The second version doesn't necessarily deny these characteristics, but it does sublimate them. The protagonist is ...