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The Tipping Point

  • 288 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 2000
  • 21 editions

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1 About this book

"New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell looks at why major changes in our society so often happen suddenly and unexpectedly. Ideas, behavior, messages, and products, he argues, often spread like outbreaks of infectious disease. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a few fare-beaters and graffiti artists fuel a subway crime wave, or a satisfied customer fill the empty tables of a new restaurant.

These are social epidemics, and the moment when they take off, when they reach their critical mass, is the Tipping Point.".

Good for readers who want: business and psychology.

  • Social psychology
  • Business & economics
  • Psychology
  • Psychology, social
  • Business
  • Causation
  • Public opinion
  • Social adjustment

2 About Malcolm Gladwell

Born 1963

Malcolm Timothy Gladwell (born September 3, 1963) is a British-Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He has published eight books. He is also the host of the podcast Revisionist History and co-founder of the podcast company Pushkin Industries.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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