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Summary: Enough pieces of sand and you have a Sandbox!
Comment: Tipping Point is a quick read that illustrates in dramatic fashion how small movements in society become a full blown trend. I have used the term "Tipping Point" in business as success is gained in methodical steps.
Brett Vanderwater, MBA, CIA, CMA, CTP
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Summary: Savor these chapters!
Comment: Do you need to read this book in order to be successful in life or business? Probably not.
However, this is a book that I purposely read slowly, one chapter at a time, because I would find myself thinking about the case studies and the principles that Gladwell used. Especially interesting was the classification of people into connectors, mavens, and salespeople. We all know them--that chapter will make you think about your sister, your best friend, or your neighbor with a better understanding.
I would highly recommend this book. It will keep your brain running and turning well after the book goes back on the shelf. You will also look smarter at cocktail parties after bringing up some of the theories in this book; that's never a bad thing.
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Summary: Maybe Gladwell's Best to Date?
Comment: I'd read Gladwell's "Blink" awhile ago, then "Outliers" and thoroughly enjoyed both. Somehow I'd missed "The Tipping Point" until recently, when at the recommendation of a friend I listened to it on audiobook. This is a fascinating book about how trends happen. Malcolm Gladwell has an easily accessible way of communicating social science and group psychology by using compelling, relevant examples that make the reader want to know more. Really interesting examination of "tipping" that occurs sometimes with intent and others, simply resulting from a sequence of events. - Review from the award-winning author of Your Present: A Half-Hour of Peace: A Guided Imagery Meditation for Physical & Spiritual Wellness
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Summary: Eye-Opening, Interesting, Revealing, and Fun
Comment: Simply put, Malcolm Gladwell's "The Tipping Point" is a fantastic book. Widely heralded as a rare and "game changing" book, what Gladwell elegantly offers readers is an interesting set of stories that serve as allegories to a set of powerful, and eye-opening, ideas. These ideas, conveyed regularly, succinctly, and consistently well by Gladwell, provide a frame of reference on the world writ large that serve to answer the question, "how can little things make such a big difference?"
One of the powerful aspects of "The Tipping Point" is the voice of the author -- never proselytizing, Gladwell serves up the facts and the context for the review of the reader, and then builds a logical case as to why he believes what he does. I find Gladwell's logical voice to parallel that of Michael Pollen, especially Pollen's rhetorical approach used throughout The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
This is a smart, entertaining, revealing, and just plain fun book. I recommend this book to all curious readers.
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Summary: If I have no other books to read in an airplane...
Comment: First, I bought this book because it's one of our supplemental reference book in class.
Second, I was prompted to buy because of good review.
It illustrate:
- how a small news can easily spread out (The British are coming)
- how Hush Puppies shoes was revived in the market
- how Sesame Street found its niche in television
- how crime was reduced in NY by cleaning up graffiti and fixing broken windows
I consider it more like a history book.
This book is quite okay. 50% of what I read are somewhat interesting but nothing in the book so far gave me a WOW.
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