Snagging New Homes - Books : Outliers: The Story of Success

Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9781846141218
ISBN: 1846141214
Label: Allen Lane
Manufacturer: Allen Lane
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: November 18, 2008
Publisher: Allen Lane
Release Date: November 18, 2008
Studio: Allen Lane

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- How to "unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't"

In reviews of Malcolm Gladwell's previous books, The Tipping Point and Blink, I express an opinion that Gladwell offers an insight that others have previously expressed and then requires 300+ pages to discuss it. His key points in both books could have been made in an article. Gladwell's "tipping point"(2002), for example, is essentially the same as Michael Kami's "trigger point" (1988) and Andrew Gove "inflection point" (1996). (Gladwell does acknowledge the importance of an article, "Broken ... Read More

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- Is personal success really personal?
I always argued with friends that we never quite know how a successful individual or a company as made it big.

Of course we all know about the endless working hours, the "talented" individual and the help of a focused team.
But if this was the rule we will have had far more successful people and companies.

Gladwell analyse in a very entertaining and insightful way, how the individual itself is just a minor part of a far bigger mechanism that takes place to make his life ... Read More

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- slightly underwhealming
I wanted to love this, really I did, but it's one very simple idea (albeit a fairly good one) spun out to fill an entire book. Not up to the standard of "The Tipping Point".

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- Entertaining Read
I'm a fan of Malcolm Gladwell having read his previous Blink and The Tipping Point. All his books are about interesting topics and are told in a way that keeps the reader engaged. Similarly to the other books the criticism can always be made that he makes about 4-5 valid points and stretches them out to a full book but when the writing is engaging and takes you on a journey it doesn't really matter.

The book itself takes you through what drives success. Arguing that it's a combination of intelligence ... Read More

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- Not as good as the other two
I read Blink and the Tipping Point, both of which were excellent. After reading a section of the book in the Guardian I was pleased to receive this for christmas. I rattled through it, and there's some interesting stuff. However, there's about enough material for the magazine article, and little more. He comes up with his theory, throws a few case studies at it, and that's it. The basic theory is that your background is as important as your skills - that geniuses have to be lucky too. Not really as sophisticated ... Read More

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