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The Tipping Point

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference

by Malcolm Gladwell

3.72 out of 5 (99 ratings)

Format:
Paperback 
Pages:
288 
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group 
Publication Date:
14 April 2001 
Category:
Sociology 
ISBN:
9780349113463 

Description

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.

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  • Amazing book written for the scholar or layman. It's so easy to take the authors ideas and find other applications for his model. A great read and something to keep you thinking.

    5.00 out of 5

    yonitdm

  • An amazing novel with surprising conclusions all about ideas. The author pulls from every kind of interest or story and creates an image of an idea. He describes, with supported facts and detail, what a tipping point is. He doesn't just apply it to ideas, but also with physical things. All of his examples are highly interesting. It is truly amazing one person can accomplish a work such as this, becuase of the wide range of knowledge involved. He must have done countless hours of research with a vigor to prove a point. This novel was a huge success for me, not just becuase it was so easy to read and had great examples interwoven in the argument, but it was so different and refreshing.

    5.00 out of 5

    meggiemoo0

  • One of those books that summarizes in a brilliant way what we all kind of know, but then are amazed by when it is said well. That's Gladwell's skill, I think.

    5.00 out of 5

    miriamparker

  • This was the first book I read on socio-economics and I found it very interesting -- this book taught me a new paradigm of how our solutions might affect others and how they may be used to someone's advantage . . . This book became even more interesting to me after reading "Freakonomics" since the pieces of literature are somewhat opposed in their view on very similar topics.

    5.00 out of 5

    bribaker2001

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