The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference | Malcolm Gladwell

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference | Malcolm Gladwell | Breaks down the "how"

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	The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference Malcolm Gladwell Back Bay Books, 2002 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 922 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

This book will make you smarter - part 2.

I stole my review title from my review for Gladwell's "Blink" because I feel the same way about this book. Keen insight for business and life in understanding exactly what it is that makes people, society, business, and life tick, and how you can use some basic math and logic to get the most out of your experiences. Don't get me wrong, this is not a high-mined analytical read, rather it is a well-written look at some complex info broken down into an easily digested mental snack.

Breaks down the "how"

Sure, I like to read. And it is a rare book that I could tell you exactly where I was when I read, X, Y or Z.

The Tipping Point created in me such a moment in my life. Some of the points are sorta "well duh" (for me anyway). However, even those points moved the 'duh' to exactly Why.

And those few 'duhs' we're overcome with a great deal of step-by-step, why's and how's on stuff I didn't see.

Certainly not a waste of your time to read this one!

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There is More in Heaven and Earth....

This is a fascinating and relevant business book. But it's also an enormously heartening treatise on the potential of large human groups to change quickly. There is a new, "Positivity in Business" movement afoot, and those who are in it would love to see it spread like wildfire. This book shows how that kind of thing happens. For those who find global issues overwhelmingly challenging, the book gives much reason for optimism.

Doni Tamblyn is author of Laugh and Learn: 95 Ways to Use Humor for More Effective Teaching and Training and The Big Book of Humorous Training Games (Big Book of Business Games Series)

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Great posturing advice!

Gladwell does a great job of finding hidden information that is strategic for anyone who wants to market, persuade, or sell some thing or some concept. He is a little repetitive on the hush puppy theme but overall, I learned a lot and my eyes were widened on seveal fronts.

I suspect some of Gladwell's 'Tipping Point' themes influenced in a small way the formation of my novel, Uncle Juan's Cabin. He reminded me about the importance of "the teachable moment" which is where we are as a country right now regarding immigration issues. "Uncle Juan's Cabin" will keep that dialog going thanks somewhat to the teachable moments espoused in The Tipping Point.

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Pleasant read, but no bite..

I read this book in one sitting, but that is more a testimony to the author's comfortable writing style than to the hold of his arguments. The content resonated with me, as it obviously has done for many more people, but I didn't feel that I learnt anything new. In other words, what the author says here felt like a long winded statement of the blindingly obvious. In our society, because we've been acclimatized for so long to take nothing for granted, journalists and researchers are often re-discovering the wheel, and getting praise for it. This seems to me to be another case of that.

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