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Upending conventional wisdom has made Malcolm Gladwell famous and successful. In his new book, Outliers, he asks, Why on earth did that happen?
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- "Gladwell is pale skinned but famously Afro-haired."—Tim Adams, The Guardian, November 16, 2008. - "Gladwell, who is slight of build, with an exuberance of hair and an oddly diffident manner..." Jerry Adler, Newsweek, November 15, 2008. - "Slender, with elfin cheekbones and a distinctive bloom of spirally brown hair, Gladwell is one of those clever people who actually looks clever."— Lev Grossman, Time Magazine, November 13, 2008. - "Gladwell was a soft-spoken guy with a cafe-au-lait complexion and a halo of frizzy hair."— Mary Ann Gwinn, The Seattle Times, November 13, 2008. - "Gladwell is a poufy-haired showman with a knack for explaining anything to everybody, from dog whispering and fads to disposable diapers and snap judgments."—Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly, November 12, 2008. - "Beneath the crazy hair, the slobby-chic clothes, and the buzzword-filled vocabulary is an old-fashioned guy who grew up among Mennonites in rural Ontario, didn’t have a TV until he was 23, and still prefers to do m ...
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In 1904, a German professor of economics went back to work after a long bout of depression. He began to publish a series of essays about the links between a community, its core beliefs, and material success. Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism not only unleashed a century of debate and dispute. It more or less created the sociology of culture as a study of the interplay between individual actions and collective values – irrespective of whether his heirs agreed that (say) the Calvinist faith gave merchants an edge on the exchange. A man whose own inner torments had forced him to bail out from an ultra-competitive arena helped the 20th century to understand that high achievements often have roots that extend deeper and wider than personal drive and skill.
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Malcolm Gladwell, born in Fareham, Hampshire, but raised in Canada, has become one of the most prominent cultural commentators working today. He spent a decade at the Washington Post before moving to the New Yorker, and his two books, The Tipping Point and Blink, have sold millions of copies and paved the way for non-fiction bestsellers such as Stephen J Dubner and Steven D Levitt's Freakonomics and Nicholas Nassim Taleb's The Black Swan.
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Best-selling author explains the premise of his latest book.
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Tom Horan reviews Malcolm Gladwell's lecture at the Lyceum Theatre in London.
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Gladwell's books would be more intellectually honest if he simply dispensed with his frameworks altogether, but then ... he wouldn't be the cultural figure he is now. Like 'Freakanomics' guru Steven Levitt, Gladwell promises to unravel our knottiest problems with the simplest of paradigms. By turning the macro into micro, he frees life of its chaos. Gladwell, in short, is in the hope business.
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In response to Noras interview with Gregory Berns on Spark 56, Amy Matthews twittered: @sparkcbc Great show today! The iconoclast discussion was interesting; it reminded me of Malcolm Gladwells outlier idea. Malcolm Gladwell hasnt been on Spark (yet!), but last...
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In his new book "Outliers" Malcolm Gladwell sets out to prove that The Beatles and Bill Gates have more in common than one might think.
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Are geniuses made rather than born? And if so, how do you become one? Ed Smith looks for tips.
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Listen here: Why are most hockey players born in the first four months of the year? What do Bill Gates and the Beatles have in common? What does math have to do with rice paddies? These aren’t riddles, but the starting points for Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book, Outliers: The Story of Success (Little, Brown, & Company). In Outliers, the bestselling author of Blink and The Tipping Point takes readers on an intellectual journey through the world of the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. What surprises Gladwell most is that many extraordinarily successful people rely on ordinary methods like simple hard work to get ahead. Eleanor Wachtel spoke to Malcolm Gladwell in Toronto. First aired December 7, 2008 on Writers & Company. [runs 52:27] Writers & Company airs on Thursdays at 11:00 p.m. (11:30 in Newfoundland) and on Sunday afternoons (times vary across the country). You can also listen to the show as a podcast.
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The secrets of Malcolm Gladwell The New Yorker's hip popsociologist.
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The Tunisian Paralympics team has achieved its best performance ever in the history of its participation in the Paralympics Games by earning 21 medals in all, including 9 gold medals, 9 silver medals and 3 bronze medals at the Beijing
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A look at what the numbers crunched by STATS LLC tell us about the Dodgers and Phillies, who meet beginning tonight in the National League Championship Series: Philadelphia not part of Mannywood?
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Certificate of deposits are a financial alternative, but what should you know?
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Insurance companies are now being battered like Wall Street banks were last month, suggesting a similar round of consolidation and recapitalization.
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The resplendent French-bordello touches that make Napoleon bistro romantic and Local 16 the picture of pretty? All the chandeliers, expansive mirrors, banquettes and the ubiquitous use of ebony that are seemingly synonymous with any new bar in Washington?
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John Terry will remain with the England squad despite Fabio Capello being resigned to losing his captain for the game against Kazakhstan.
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Moonlight, mist and thick tropical air permeate the landscape of “La León,” a sumptuous film about the swirling of desire in the Paraná Delta.
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Eurogroup summit to take place on Sunday
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The Edmonton Eskimos rode 17 second-quarter points, five quarterback sacks and took advantage of four Lions turnovers for a 27-20 CFL win Friday night at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver.
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Starting in the '50s, the vocal enclave pushed for parks, schools and a better life. IT WAS the 1950s, and developer Stone & Stone began building the first homes in an area that had been an oil field. At the nearby ranch of Will Rogers Jr., actors and actresses learned to rope and ride for the many westerns that Culver City studios were churning out. Racial integration, a fight for schools and park space and the desire for a better life played out in newly established Blair Hills, as it did in many other communities across the country.
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Sheffield United captain Chris Morgan says he is desperate to start against Steel City rivals Sheffield Wednesday on Sunday.
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Demonstrative exercises will be hold in one of the city hotels.VLADIVOSTOK, October 14, vladivostoktimes.com. There will be all-Russian teaching and methodical assembly with the territory administration commanders of the Russian Emergency Ministry participation during October 14-16 in Vladivostok. It is
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As the dust settles on a turbulent few weeks for Polish soccer, a wider question is being asked in the game’s corridors of power. Did UEFA make a mistake in awarding Euro 2012 to Poland and Ukraine? Despite both countries receiving explicit warnings from European soccer’s governing body, they are still well behind in their preparations, so much [...]
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DETROIT (AP) -- The winless Detroit Lions placed quarterback Jon Kitna on injured reserve Tuesday, ending his season....
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In the past few days, we have seen all the major Western economies adopt the "Gordon Brown" plan for bailing out banks.
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Willie Haughey, the former Celtic director and football philanthropist, hopes his decision to sponsor the Scottish Cup over the next two years will help atone for the suspended proposal to build a national training complex.
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DETROIT -- Jon Kitna's season is over for the winless Detroit Lions.
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The head of the provincial department of Public Health and Endemics Control, Isilda Neves, said Monday in Luanda that all is in place for the prevention of maternal death and reduction of indexes in Angola.
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The winless Detroit Lions placed quarterback Jon Kitna on the injured reserve Tuesday, ending his season.
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For a Budget speech peppered with words and phrases like "competitiveness", "export-led growth" and "foreign direct investment", Finance Minister Brian Lenihan did little to live up to business expectations.
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Yukon Tories are blaming the Greens for their election loss to Liberal incumbent MP Larry Bagnell, who easily rode to his fourth victory for the territory's lone seat Tuesday.
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