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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Dif 

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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Dif
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Subject: Psychology
Language: English  

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Malcolm Gladwell's highly imaginative pop treatise on the flow of goods and ideas in society reached a tipping point of its own, spending many weeks on the New York Times best-seller list , and then appearing for weeks on both lists following its paperback publication.Proposing a contagion model, in which things spread through the population like viruses, Gladwell examines a range of phenomena--the sudden and unexpected popularity of Hush Puppies in the fashion world, the decline in the crime rate in New York City, how a book (THE YA-YA SISTERHOOD) became a bestseller out of the blue, a spike in youth suicide rates in Malaysia--teasing out the cause and logic, and showing how they all had a "tipping point" and how they illustrate one of three basic principles. He cites sometimes arcanely sourced studies to support his theories, and along the way has popularized terms such as "word-of-mouth marketing" and "stickiness." THE TIPPING POINT has changed the way we look at and talk about "stuff," and Gladwell's ideas have energized fields such as business, marketing, education, and sociology.

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Author:Malcolm Gladwell
Language:English
Format:Audio
ISBN-10:1586217453
ISBN-13:9781586217457

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Edition Description:Abridged

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Thickness:0.5 in
Weight:4 oz

Publisher's Note
An introduction to the Tipping Point theory--first presented in a series of articles in "The New Yorker"--explains how minor changes in ideas and products can increase their popularity and how small adjustments in one's immediate environment can alter group behavior.

Industry Reviews
"Gladwell's wide-ranging research has led him to believe that all trends...follow certain laws, which he delineates with skill and a palpable sense of excitement."
Ruminator Review - Donna Seaman

"A lively, timely and engaging study....THE TIPPING POINT is worth reading just for what it tells us about how we try to make sense out of the world."
New York Times Book Review - Alan Wolfe (03/05/2000)

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

by Malcolm Gladwell

Estimated delivery 3-12 business days

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This abridged title is read by Malcolm Gladwell.

Publisher 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.

Author Biography

Malcolm Gladwell is a writer for the NEW YORKER. This is his first book.

Details

  • ISBN 1586217453
  • ISBN-13 9781586217457
  • Title The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
  • Author Malcolm Gladwell
  • Format Compact Disc
  • Year 2005
  • Pages 1
  • Publisher Time Warner AudioBooks
  • Dimensions5.3 in. x 0.6 in. x 5.7 in.

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