The Tipping Point

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An alternate cover edition exist here.The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate This widely acclaimed bestseller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is already changing the way people throughout the world think about selling products and disseminating ideas.Gladwell introduces us to the particular personality types who are natural pollinators of new ideas and trends, the people who create the phenomenon of word of mouth He analyzes fashion trends, smoking, children s television, direct mail, and the early days of the American Revolution for clues about making ideas infectious, and visits a religious commune, a successful high tech company, and one of the world s greatest salesmen to show how to start and sustain social epidemics. New Read [ The Tipping Point ] By [ Malcolm Gladwell ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr This book is fascinating and I was disappointed to read that many other readers didn t think so So here s my response I think those readers are approaching this book the wrong the way when they critisize Gladwell for his inability to prove his points thoroughly Sure, Gladwell could have dotted every i and crossed every t and shown every counter example to ...This book grew out of an article Malcolm Gladwell was writing for the New Yorker Frankly, it is better suited for a 5 7 page article rather than a 280 page book The crux of the book is that the stickiness factor of epidemics whatever the nature begins with a tipping point This tipping point arises because of three distinct sets of individuals mavens, connectors and salespeople He also examines the well known S curve which begins with innovators, then early adopters, followed by the earl This book grew out of an article Malcolm Gladwell was writing for the New Yorker Frankly, it is better suited for a 5 7 page article rather than a 280 page book The crux of the book is that the stickiness factor of epidemics whatever the nature begins with a tipping point This tipping point arises because of three distinct sets of individuals mavens, connectors and salespeople He also examines the well known S curve which begins with innovators, then early adopters, followed by the early majority and finally, the late majority He is overwhelmingly redundant in expressing his ideas, providing examples of epidemics throughout the text while comparing them to one another children s television, Hushpuppy shoes, Paul Revere s ride, nicotine, and the list goes on and on The Conclusion, the eighth and final chapter, was pointless if the reader did not understand Gladwell s point by now, he or she must have been as lost as Washington Redskins new coach Jim Zorn when ...Can I give this zero stars When I read this book, back in 2006, I got really mad and wrote a scathing review of it on .com Here it is I ve been duped , June 20, 2006By Sarah California, USA See all my reviewsThis book sucks Don t waste your hard earned money on it Let me save you a few bucks here Malcolm Gladwell is either a self aggrandizing ass who is too busy thinking he is the god of marketing to notice that a great majority of his arguments lack any kind of cohesion or credib Can I give this zero stars When I read this book, back in 2006, I got really mad and wrote a scathing review of it on .com Here it is I ve been duped , June 20, 2006By Sarah California, USA See all my reviewsThis book sucks Don t waste your hard earned money on it Let me save you a few bucks here Malcolm Gladwell is either a self aggrandizing ass who is too busy thinking he is the g...Really good book It read like a bestseller quick read , but had a lot of substance to stop and make you think.three Rules of the tipping point the law of the few, the stickyness factor, the power of context.Law of the Few people who influence Connectors super connectors eg Paul Revere William Dawes had the same mission as Paul Revere the same night but we haven t heard of him b c Paul Revere was a super connector knew who to rouse Mavens A Maven is a person who has informat R...How the flying fuck did this piece of shit ever get published How on God s green earth did this thing become a bestseller Yes, I m the last person in America to read The Tipping Point, and I m glad I waited Now that all the hype has burned off, it s easy to see this book for what it is a very well crafted collection of half truths and speculation, sold as truth.Let s look at one example I read The Tipping Point as an ebook, so my pages might not match completely with yours, but it s the s How the flying fuck did this piece of shit ever get published How on God s green earth did this thing become a bestseller Yes, I m the last...Here s why you need to read The Tipping Point You don t Look, it s not because the writing is poor, the concepts disorganized, or the book fails to instruct It s simply that the ideas are anachronistic This is no fault of Malcolm Gladwell He published in 2000, wrote in 99, and used case studies from the mid 90 s How could he have known he was publishing a book about social media on the eve of social media s inchoate move into our social DeoxyriboNucleicAcid, or that the overgrowth of soci Here s why you...I wish there was another word I could use instead of sexy I mean it metaphorically, obviously, but I want to tell you about the thing that I find to be the most sexy thing imaginable and I ve realised that sexy isn t really the word I should be using at all You realise, of course, I m talking about intellectually stimulating or satisfying when I say sexy That is what I want to talk about the thing that gives me my biggest intellectual buzz.Look, it isn t any of the obvious things you migh I wish there was another word I could use instead of sexy I mean it metaphorically, obviously, but I want to tell you about the thing that I find to be the most sexy thing imaginable and I ve realised that sexy isn t really the word I should be using at all You realise, of course, I m talking about intellectually stimulating or satisfying when I say sexy That is what I want to talk about the thing that gives me my biggest intellectual buzz.Look, it isn t any of the obvious things you might be thinking of and all of those obvious things this book has in abundance Not that I actually read this book I listened to it as an audio book, and that is important to say because I don t know if the book always has the afterword and it is something in the afterword that I loved most about...The book that became a catchphrase The term tipping point has become so commonly used in news stories that I wonder how many people know it came from a book.I read this back in 2000 when I was in grad school for sociology It s a fun little book of case studies, many of which applied to what I was learning in my classes Here it is 13 years later and I can still recall many of...In a work heavily influenced by the budding science of memetics though he never once uses the word meme , Malcom Gladwell seeks to provide a framework for explaining why certain isolated phenomena suicide in Micronesia, wearing hush puppies, reading a particular novel can suddenly become widespread and why situations can suddenly swing from one extreme rampant crime in 80s NYC to another the huge drop in crime in that same city during the 90s Gladwell postulates three mechanisms of cultu In a work heavily influenced by the budding science of memetics though he never once uses the word meme , Malcom Gladwell seeks to provide a framework for explaining why certain isolated phenomena suicide in Micronesia, wearing hush puppies, reading a particular novel can suddenly become widespread and why situations can suddenly swing from one extreme rampant crime in 80s NYC to another the huge drop in crime in that same city during the 90s Gladwell postulates three mechanisms of cultural epidemiology, the axioms of the law of the few, the stickiness factor and the power of context The law of the few declares that change is often initiated by a small group of people three different types with an ever widening pyramid of influence Making up the first type are the connectors, basically human nexuses whose webs of important acquaintances note that these are not friends s...Holy suppositions, Gladwell There s a whole lotta coulds, may haves, apparentlies, perhapses up in here Malcolm Gladwell s basic premise in The Tipping Point To explain how word of mouth is spread.A couple of the examples he used were how crime was reduced in NYC under Giuliani s reign and how an old, dead in the water bra...

The Tipping Point
  • English
  • 01 November 2017
  • Paperback
  • 301 pages
  • 0316346624
  • Malcolm Gladwell
  • The Tipping Point