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Malcolm Gladwell is the author of five New York Times bestsellers — The Tipping Point, Blink,Outliers, What the Dog Saw, and David and Goliath. He is also the co-founder of Pushkin Industries, an audio content company that produces the podcasts Revisionist History, which reconsiders things both overlooked and misunderstood, and Broken Record, where he, Rick Rubin, and Bruce Headlam interview musicians across a wide range of genres. Gladwell has been included in the TIME 100 Most Influential People list and touted as one of Foreign Policy’s Top Global Thinkers.
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Listening Length 8 hours and 34 minutes Author Malcolm Gladwell Narrator Malcolm Gladwell Whispersync for Voice Ready Audible.com Release Date December 31, 2006 Publisher Hachette Audio Program Type Audiobook Version Unabridged Language English Identification Number B000OYD8T2 - Book Name : The Tipping Point PDF
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Bart Mills “Some may say “The Tipping Point” belabors the obvious, which is that things change, sometimes overnight. True, too true, but so what? Malcolm Gladwell, the master of popularized social research, makes us care about the mechanisms of seemingly abrupt shifts in the course of human events—such as why William Dawes’ midnight ride to warn that the British were coming didn’t start the American Revolution, but Paul Revere’s did. Turns out Revere’s personality helped his news galvanize patriots to pick up their rifles, while Dawes’ identical cry made people turn over and go back to sleep. Revere had two of the three traits Gladwell identifies as necessary to the spread of social trends: he was a Connector and a Maven. Revere had a vast rolodex of acquaintances in colonial Massachusetts and he knew everything there was to know about the nascent independence movement. He set the scene for resistance to the onmarching British, and a few local men of Gladwell’s third type, the Persuaders, finished the job of rallying the militias of Concord and Lexington.
Gladwell is adept at explaining the academic research that led to such popular ideas as “six degrees of separation” and relating such social science experimentation to his overall theme of how change happens. He goes deeply into the discoveries about learning that led to the success of “Sesame Street” and “Blue’s Clues”—these shows’ producers used the idea of “stickiness” to instill basic principles and values in pre-schoolers. The “broken windows” theory of policing gets a thorough explainer, including a side trip into how do-gooding seminarians can allow themselves to avoid being good Samaritans. Advertising is one of the great accelerators of trends, and Gladwell marshals a few Madison Ave. case studies to show how commercials tip us into parting with our hard-earned cash.
Absolutely painless learning is what Gladwell offers, with a side benefit of greater self-awareness.”
Zuff “As Usual, Malcolm Gladwell is a great story teller. The book is about the small things that can make huge changes. The book is interesting and fun to read, but there are two big problems:
a) Malcolm Gladwell is not a scientist, and he lacks the skepticism which is so mauch an important part of science. He starts with the story of the crime fall in NY that came shortly after the start of the “broken windows” policy. The “fact” that the “broken windows”policy made such a huge change serves him well for his arguments, but there is a problem here. the claim that the “broken windows” policy was the main factor in reducing the crime at that time in NY, is an assumption, and by now we have strong reasons to believe that it played only a mior role in the crime reduction. Other factors such as reduction of lead in fuel have much stronger correlation with the crime reduction, and in many other places, as well, while efforts to replicate the “broken windows” policy elsewhere did not produce the same results. So his first chapter is about a nice but false story that if it was true, was showing an interesting nature of how vast changes in behavior happen.
The second problem, is that the book was written before that Internet became a major player in the field. By now it is problably the most major player, but the book describes how things were before the Internet became a major player. In this sense, the book describes how things were in another era. Things have completely changed since then.”
Louai R “I had recently read the ‘Outliers’ by Gladwell and enjoyed it; with such books you need to have the right approach; that is to have an open mind and not expect empirical-based conclusions, but rather be prepared to read and enjoy amusing and thought-provoking correlations and observations from selective situations. This book however stunned me. It was written around 7-8 years before the ‘Outliers’ and you could easily tell how Gladwell’s maturity had evolved in that period. This book is so repetitive in its themes, redundant in asserting its conclusions and simply boring in its overall flow. While I found many of the examples amusing in the ‘Outliers’, here they lacked originality and intrigue. What struck me initially was how Gladwell had provided a totally different explanation as to why crime fell in NYC in this book, than to what he later mentioned in the Outliers. Why the dramatic change of opinion? I will not go in much details so as not to spoil this for those who are yet to read his books. His example on the success of Sesame Street was so protracted and based on the unique discipline of child psychology that I am not sure how transferable the conclusion here was to his overrriding theories. His conclusions on teenage smoking can be easily refuted based on recent studies (remember the book was written around 15 years ago). And lastly, I was so dumbfounded by his observations on suicides in Micronesia that I decided to test the study myself. He mentions a suicide rate of 170 per 100,000 and concludes how it was one of the highest in the world. I checked for myself that in that period of time the entire population of Micronesia was around 70,000 and so the actual statistical population was so small and there were so many isolated cases that he had already mentioned that any statistician would yield their results as unacceptable (in light of the small statistical population) and in need of adjustment. Having said all that, his theory on the tipping point is not unfounded and could have better been presented in a long new yorker-style article, rather than a protracted book filled with either dubious or naive examples.”
Keith Farrell “Quite thought-provoking. The book offers several real-world examples of situations where different companies and organisations found “tipping points” in their business or activities, and these examples are very well analysed and explained. The book is quite comprehensive in terms of analysing “tipping points” that have happened, and the elements that create these “tipping points”.
The one downside to the book is that it doesn’t quite manage to tie everything together into giving advice about how to create a “tipping point” for your own business. It all seems to boil down to “know the right people”, and “do the right thing at the right time”. It can explain very well why “tipping points” have happened, but it doesn’t explain so well how to create a “tipping point” for your own organisation or activities. If this is the kind of advice you are looking for, then the book is not going to achieve your goals completely. However, I must reiterate that it gives superb explanations of “tipping points” that have happened, these analyses are very thought provoking, and you could certainly take many of the lessons and ideas and try to apply them to your own business.”
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