Outliers: The Story of Success
What makes the best, the brightest, the most famous, and the most successful excel? The answer to the question, Malcolm Gladwell insists, resides in the culture, family, and upbringing of these high achievers. To demonstrate his point, he delves into the backgrounds of soccer players,...
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What makes the best, the brightest, the most famous, and the most successful excel? The answer to the question, Malcolm Gladwell insists, resides in the culture, family, and upbringing of these high achievers. To demonstrate his point, he delves into the backgrounds of soccer players, mathematicians, software billionaires, and even John, Paul, George, and Ringo. A super stimulating read; a buoyant Barnes & Noble Bestseller, now in paperback and NOOKbook editions. (Sidebar seminar: In statistics, an outlier is an observation numerical distant and unrepresentative of the remaining data.)
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Format: Textbook
ASIN: 9780316017923
Publish date: 18-11-2008
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Edition language: English
This book is excellent. It's fascinating, insightful, sometimes even shocking and always entertaining. If you don't read it, you're really missing out on some great research and writing.Why four stars? In my less-than-humble opinion this book, or rather this author, has the same problem as other boo...
Gladwell loves a good story based on some semblance of the connectedness of the world. And he’s such a good storyteller that the reader can’t help being carried along with his ideas. I read and loved Blink. I read and loved The Tipping Point. Now I’ve read and loved Outliers. But are any of these va...
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