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Binding: Audio CD Dewey Decimal Number: 302 EAN: 9781586217457 Feature: ISBN13: 9781586217457 Format: Abridged ISBN: 1586217453 Label: Hachette Audio Manufacturer: Hachette Audio Number Of Items: 3 Publication Date: 2005-01-01 Publisher: Hachette Audio Studio: Hachette Audio
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Editorial Reviews: THE TIPPING POINT is the biography of an idea, and the idea is quite simple. It is that many of the problems we face - from crime to teenage delinquency to traffic jams - behave like epidemics. They aren't linear phenomena in the sense that they steadily and predictably change according to the level of effort brought to bear against them. They are capable of sudden and dramatic changes in direction. Years of well-intentioned intervention may have no impact at all, yet the right intervention - at just the right time - can start a cascade of change. Many of the social ills that face us today, in other words, are as inherently volatile as the epidemics that periodically sweep through the human population: little things can cause them to 'tip' at any time and if we want to understand how to confront and solve them we have to understand what those 'Tipping Points' are. In this revolutionary new study, Malcolm Gladwell explores the ramifications of this. Not simply for politicians and policy-makers, his method provides a new way of viewing everyday experience and enables us to develop strategies for everything from raising a child to running a company.
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: 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 Customer Rating: 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. Customer Rating: 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 Customer Rating: 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. Customer Rating: 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.