Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer with The New Yorker magazine since 1996. His 1999 profile of Ron Popeil won a National Magazine Award, and in 2005 he was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People. He is the author of three books, "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference," (2000) , "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking" (2005), and "Outliers: The Story of Success" (2008) all of which were number one New York Times bestsellers.
From 1987 to 1996, he was a reporter with the Washington Post, where he covered business, science, and then served as the newspaper's New York City bureau chief. He graduated from the University of Toronto, Trinity College, with a degree in history. He was born in England, grew up in rural Ontario, and now lives in New York City.
It's a book about change. In particular, it's a book that presents a new way of understanding why change so often happens as quickly and as unexpectedly as it does. For example, why did crime drop so dramatically in New York City in the mid-1990's? How does a novel written by an unknown author end up as national bestseller? Why do teens smoke in greater and greater numbers, when every single person in the country knows that cigarettes kill? Why is word-of-mouth so powerful? What makes TV shows like Sesame Street so good at teaching kids how to read? I think the answer to all those questions is the same. It's that ideas and behavior and messages and products sometimes behave just like outbreaks of infectious disease. They are social epidemics. The Tipping Point is an examination of the social epidemics that surround us.


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I have the first two, but the Outliers. Will find this Outliers to complete the series of one of the most inspiring yet fearing kind of writing, where patterns of human psychology were discussed in details, while on the usual day, we often miss from seeing this patterns on how human, literally speaking, could change the world.

5 comments:
yeah..books..i saw dat "blink" once 8 d bookstore..perhaps i can get it next time..since ure promo it here..hehe sound like its worth reading.;)
yea u should buy it. good investment.
totally interested.. u sure u weren't in advertising?
kidding dude..
neh~ they ain't paying me jack for this.
My dad gave me "Blink" for my birthday pressie! Teehee..Somehow I think it's kinda boring though but yeah i hv to say dat it's a good book=)
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