Malcolm Gladwell
speaker
RENOWNED JOURNALIST
Malcolm Gladwell is a renowned journalist who looks for unexpected connections to share light on various topics on sociology, psychology, and social psychology.
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
He is the author of 5 international bestsellers.
THE 10,000-HOUR RULE
His theory, the 10,000-hour rule which he popularized through Outliers says that the key to success in any field is simply a matter of practising a specific task that can be accomplished with 20 hours of work a week for 10 years.
PUBLISHED BOOKS:
- The Tipping Point
- Blink
- Outliers
- What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
- David and Goliat
Books by Malcolm Gladwell
Talking to Strangers
The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger's motives?Through a series of encounters and misunderstandings - from history, psychology and infamous legal cases - Malcolm Gladwe... Read More
Talking to Strangers
The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger's motives?Using stories of deceit and fatal errors to cast doubt on our strategies for dealing with the unknown, Malcolm Gladwell t... Read More
What the Dog Saw
In these breathtaking intellectual adventure stories, covering everything from criminology to ketchup, job interviews to dog training, Malcolm Gladwell looks under the surface of everyday life to show how the most ordinary subjects can illuminate the most extraordinary things about us and our world.'Masterpieces in the art of the essay' Steven Pinker, The New York Times'Beautiful ... brings togeth... Read More
Gladwell Collection
Malcom Gladwell's bestselling books have engaged, entertained and inspired millions of readers, transforming the way they see the world and covering a wide range of modern day issues, from success to relationships and the complexities of our minds. This newly designed box set gathers four of his best selling books, offering readers a captivating selection of his innovative and outstanding thinking... Read More
Outliers
In this stunning New York Times best seller, Blink and The Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"?the best, brightest, most famous and most successful?learning that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from. Read More
Blink
In his landmark bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in the blink of an eye-that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers... Read More
The Tipping Point
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 directio... Read More
David and Goliath
"Gladwell's most enjoyable book so far. It is a feel-good extravaganza, nourishing both heart and mind". (Financial Times). "I devoured in a single reading". (Richard E. Grant). "When you read it, you feel like you can topple giants". (Jon Ronson). What if everything we thought about power was wrong? What if, in the ancient story of the shepherd boy who topples a giant, David actually had the adva... Read More
Outliers
From the bestselling author of Blink and The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: The Story of Success overturns conventional wisdom about genius to show us what makes an ordinary person an extreme overachiever.Why do some people achieve so much more than others? Can they lie so far out of the ordinary?In this provocative and inspiring book, Malcolm Gladwell looks at everyone from rock star... Read More