Best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell has been arguing for years that football should be banned.
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Sure, as Malcolm Gladwell believes, some endeavors require unrelenting practice, perhaps 10, 000 hours to master.
When Malcolm Gladwell published Blink, the book gave many people an apparently great excuse not to listen.
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In his book Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell writes about the role of culture in airline crashes.
For instance, Malcolm Gladwell in Outliers explains how Korean Airlines used to encounter an abnormal number of fatal crashes.
Malcolm Gladwell has written a new book entitled How David Beats Goliath.
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The book itself is of the style of Malcolm Gladwell, anecdotes supported with quirky psychology experiments that drive to a point.
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But no one is as influential in this realm as Malcolm Gladwell.
But it is one of those little things than can make a big difference as Malcolm Gladwell noted in The Tipping Point.
Johansson relies heavily on anecdotes to demonstrate his points, in the style of Malcolm Gladwell, but without the reliance on academic studies.
In his recent New Yorker piece, Small Change, Malcolm Gladwell argues that the social web does not fundamentally change the nature of revolutions.
Therefore, I believe there can be a fundamental shift in the world from the search for universals to the understanding of variables (Malcolm Gladwell).
Conversely, for example, you might read a sentence like this: 'Malcolm Gladwell's book, 'The Tipping Point, ' introduced a term that is now in wide currency.
In his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell suggests that it takes 10, 000 hours (or at least ten solid years) of practice to achieve mastery in most fields.
Almost a year ago, Malcolm Gladwell ranted in The New Yorker that social media would never fulfill the potential its most strident advocates envision for it.
It tells us that he has no idea who he is or wants to be as a journalist (or as a Malcolm Gladwell-style promoter of buzzworthy ideas).
Several years ago, the New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell wrote a piece that asked how much difference there was between the sanctioned combat of football and dogfighting.
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Flying back from a CFO conference last month, I read a Malcolm Gladwell story in the New Yorker magazine about Nathan Myhrvold and a band of merry inventors.
Malcolm Gladwell has popularized the notion that, in order to become an outstanding practitioner in a discipline, you need to devote to it roughly 10, 000 hours of practice.
In his book Blink, Malcolm Gladwell says you are much more likely to find a new job, for instance, through people to whom you are weakly connected than those you know well.
In Blink, author Malcolm Gladwell examined the process of decision making: The conclusions you reach in the blink of an eye are just as good as the ones you ponder over.
Consider the feverish note-taking of AOL founder Steve Case --now a major land developer in Hawaii--when social observer Malcolm Gladwell noted how often consumers misdirect because they do not know what they desire.
Lea Goldman, a coeditor of our celebrities project, says "there's no comparing" even a popular author of this sort, say, Malcolm Gladwell, with a novelist whose work can get taken to the big screen.
Shortly after, The New Yorker's Malcolm Gladwell proclaimed that " the revolution would not be tweeted" because the Internet's "weak ties seldom lead to high-risk activism, " which is needed in order to spur real change.
My apologies, in advance, to Daniel Pink whom I deeply admire, and to Malcolm Gladwell and many researchers yet I have a different take, in part, on how we are motivated.
Through sheer force of will, Eisner and his organization have had a profound impact on the lives of L.A.'s disadvantaged, opening what the author Malcolm Gladwell, a champion of Eisner's, has called an "underground railroad" out of the barrio.
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Social science popularizer Malcolm Gladwell explains in his book Outliers, that people descended from herding cultures such as those that flourished in the Middle East depended for their safety upon the creation and maintenance of public reputations for violence.
While the methodology of the test has been criticized by many researchers and social scientists, including the best-selling author, Malcolm Gladwell, the initiative, when viewed as a branding strategy, is still a powerful way to get consumers to consider other options in the brands they choose.
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