Malcolm Gladwell

Leaders in Dubai Business Forum 2008 launched

World and regional leaders launched Leaders in Dubai Business Forum 2008 talks yesterday while the economic crisis is still gripping the globe and fears of a deeper recession grow. Although the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)...

10:00 AM (PT) - The Psychology of Blink: Understanding How Our Minds Work Unconsciously - Part 1...

Recent psychological research has revealed widely held unconscious thought patterns that most people would rather not possess. Dr. Anthony Greenwald, psychology professor at the University of Washington, describes his research...

Born winners still have to practise

Airport bookshops are full of books that tell readers how to become successful by making the most of their talents. Malcolm Gladwell's new book is from the same genre, except his message is that overachievers often owe more to...

Open thread: Is there such thing as a sixth sense?

The future: can you feel it? Photograph: Alamy Call it a hunch, good gut instinct or clairvoyance, the notion of a sixth sense is often derided as having no basis in fact. But that did not stop the science minister Paul Drayson...

The power of specificity

Malcolm Gladwell on race and specificity: What I think can rescue us from our discomfiture about talking about race is specificity. It is not better or worse to be a particular race. It just depends on what you are doing. If...

The Purple Cow (The Best Marketing Book)

Seth Godin uses the principle of the Purple Cow to show businesses how to leave behind their boring marketing strategies and stand out from the herd. Risky, edgy, and enlightening, Purple Cow will stand with Malcolm Gladwell's...

Thin-slicing Project Managers

In his book "Blink" Malcolm Gladwell popularized the term "thin-slicing". "… our ability to gauge what is really important from a very narrow period of experience. In other words, spontaneous decisions are often as good as—or...

Outliers: Malcolm Gladwell's Success Story

He started with the lawyers. "Why do they all have the same biography?" he wondered. "We take it for granted that there's this guy in New York who's the corporate lawyer, right? I just was curious: Why is it all the same guy?"...

The right way to save Detroit is going sound a little leftish

There’s a lot of debate about whether to throw money at the big-three Detroit automakers or just let them go down the drain. I think we can do neither, and still solve two problems at once. Suppose instead of giving the...

Irish Sunday Tech News

I FIRED UP MY NOKIA E90 and recorded 14 minutes of thoughts arising from the Sunday newspapers in Ireland today. Before I upstreamed my comments to Qik, Pat Phelan was denouncing one of the items as a scare piece. [1] I think I...

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