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Above: Malcolm Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, and some of the book covers that feature his blurbs. “I feel like we have to promote ourselves,” he said of endorsing other writers’ work. * * * Here is…
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The 7th Sense: How Flashes of Insight Change Your Life William Duggan Columbia University Press (2015) How and why “your first six senses tell us who you are. Your seventh sense tells who you can be.” Opinions are divided with…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Malcolm Gladwell for The New Yorker, dated June 24th, 2013 and included among the articles accessible in the magazine’s archive. To read all of this article and check out others, please…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Malcolm Gladwell for The New Yorker during which he explains how Italian mobsters climbed up the so-called “social ladder” by way of crime. For black criminals, the story has changed.…
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Here is an excerpt from an interview of Malcolm Gladwell by Gaby Wood for The Telegraph. To read the complete interview and check out others, please click here. * * * Conventional wisdom says Malcolm Gladwell is a zany brainbox…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Malcolm Gladwell for The New Yorker (August 21, 2013) in which Gladwell makes a vigorous effort to clarify issues that always result from careless reading and simplistic thinking. To read…
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Outliers: The Story of Success Malcolm Gladwell Little, Brown & Company (2008) In my opinion, this is Gladwell’s most significant and most valuable book thus far. In it, he demonstrates superior storyteller skills as he discusses several quite different situations…
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I highly recommend the current issue of The New Yorker (May 16, 2011) that includes Malcolm Gladwell’s article, “Creation Myth,” his latest contribution to the “Annals of Business” series. Gladwell is a brilliant journalist but hardly an original business thinker.…
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Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement William Duggan Columbia University Press (2007) How and why “a modern discipline” can activate “flashes of insight” in a results-driven organization There is much to be said for eliminating waste throughout an…
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The Engineer’s Lament: Two ways of thinking about automotive safety
Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Malcolm Gladwell for The New Yorker. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Construction Credit: Stephen Doyle * * * To the public,…
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