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Tag Archives: tipping point
My latest read: Outliers: The Story of Success
I’m not sure why it took so long to read Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book Outliers: The Story of Success but I’m sure glad its just as enjoyable as his books The Tipping Point and Blink. As defined scientifically Outliers is an observation that is numerically distant from the rest of the data. Gladwell not only [...]
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My latest read – Microtrends
A pollster meets The Tipping Point.
That is how I would describe Mark Penn’s Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow’s Big Changes. I believe his 75 microtrend stories are interesting enough, but could not help but think back to Gladwell’s book when reading each microtrend that lasts only two or three pages.
I do believe he is [...]
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Tagged freakonomics, microtrends, tipping point, trends
My latest read – Made to Stick
What book would be a perfect follow up to The Tipping Point and Blink by Malcolm Gladwell? To prove timing is everything I read Dan and Chip Heath’s new release: Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die. The book’s authors acknowledge that their book complements Gladwell’s The Tipping Point by [...]
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Tagged blink, chip heath, Education, knowledge, made to stick, Reading, research, stanford, TED, tipping point, trends
State of the Internet
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Tagged analytics, bandwidth, change, culture, Design, Education, future, information, Innovation, internet today, knowledge, overwhelming numbers, tipping point, trends