| | |  | Books | Home » » The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference | | | | | | | Description: | | This celebrated New York Times bestsellernow poised to reach an even wider audience in paperbackis a book that is changing the way North Americans think about selling products and disseminating ideas. Gladwells new afterword to this edition describes how readers can constructively apply the tipping point principle in their own lives and work. Widely hailed as an important work that offers not only a road map to business success but also a profoundly encouraging approach to solving social problems. | | | Features: | |
• ISBN13: 9780316346627
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Malcolm Gladwell | | Paperback:
| 304 pages | | Publisher:
| Back Bay Books | | Publication Date:
| January 07, 2002 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0316346624 | | Package Length:
| 8.2 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.4 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.5 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.65 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 1062 reviews |
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 Savor these chapters!Nov 22, 2009
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.
Maybe Gladwell's Best to Date?Nov 21, 2009
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
Eye-Opening, Interesting, Revealing, and FunNov 20, 2009
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.
 If I have no other books to read in an airplane...Nov 17, 2009
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.
Great bookNov 11, 2009
It is most thought provoking and really interesting could not let it down. I learned a lot from it.
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