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Irene Tanner | Posted 01.16.2012 | Fifty
As the number of candles increase on my birthday cake, I marvel that my creative powers accelerate as my physical powers do their very best to maintain.
Lisa Randall | Posted 01.05.2012 | Science
Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries -- the arts and humanities.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.17.2012 | Business
What's a beleaguered Bank of America to do? Well, it could make a company-wide commitment to offering better customer service and undertake a systemic reform of its business practices. Or, it could hire Malcolm Gladwell as a shill and put him in front of small-business owners!
The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 11.16.2011 | Business
Struggling small businesses need not fear any longer: Malcolm Gladwell is on the way, sponsored by Bank of America. Gladwell, the bestselling write...
Malcolm Gladwell | Posted 01.04.2012 | Books
My favorite place to read is airplanes.
Posted 10.25.2011 | Culture
The New Yorker Festival has returned for its 12th year, and they've wrangled quite a lineup for this year's meeting of the minds. From the New Yor...
Jonathan Weiler | Posted 10.24.2011 | Sports
Owners in all of the major sports have shown an unwavering desire to make as much money as possible precisely by taking advantage of the fact that sports are not ordinary businesses.
Gary Liberson, PhD | Posted 10.15.2011 | Technology
Can innovation be learned? YES, but only for those with the right personality.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 08.26.2011 | Entertainment
Lelia Broussard and Ewan Currie of The Sheepdogs are the finalists in a contest sponsored by Garnier Fructis where the winner gets a contract with Atlantic Records and the cover of Rolling Stone.
Regina Weinreich | Posted 07.31.2011 | Entertainment
Last Tuesday, Bryant Park was a chess fest. Young and old, seasoned and novice players sat head in hands contemplating plastic pieces on the checkered mats. You could hear a pawn drop.
nytimes.com | KATHARINE MIESZKOWSKI | Posted 07.13.2011 | Books
For authors and other creative professionals, an appearance at the Googleplex, the company's sprawling complex of office buildings, is good business -...
Posted 07.13.2011 | Books
We've had our eyes on you lately and have seen you reading a wide array of genres, as usual. From best-sellers to beloved classics, you've been seen r...
flavorwire.com | Posted 07.10.2011 | Books
We were a little bit late in reading Jorian Polis Schutz’s analysis of manly manes in the last issue of Cabinet, titled “Barbers and Barbarians,...
Brett Caine | Posted 06.07.2011 | Business
With the creation of new here and now workplaces, the opportunity for on-demand collaboration and business innovation is limitless.
Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 05.31.2011 | Business
How often do we avoid taking an action out of the fear of other people's opinions of our failure? Innovators are better at identifying the true risk of a situation and are more willing to fail than others.
Joe Favorito | Posted 05.25.2011 | Sports
We are a superstitious lot, we sports fans. If sitting facing east works on the day the Jets finally beat the Patriots in the playoffs, we better sit...
Edward Lee | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Gladwell didn't defend his original argument that hierarchy is essential to political movements, much less his central thesis that social media creates only "weak ties" that cannot sustain political revolutions.
Jeff Jarvis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
There's a silly debate over the credit social tools should receive in the revolutions in the Middle East. This same alleged debate goes on to this day over Gutenberg, too.
Michael Hais and Morley Winograd | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
The revolution was successful because it had no leaders, only coordinators of bottom up energy. Its use of social media was brilliantly conceived to meld online organizing with offline action, not supplant it.
The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
People seem to be reverting to the comfort of reading classics in the cold weather. We spotted lots of them out there, among the breezy reads. What we...
Susan Sawyers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Education
Wendy Kopp sat down Tuesday night with writer Malcolm Gladwell at the New York Public Library, to talk about education as a way to overcome poverty.
Holly Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Most women are people-pleasers, willing to charge in to fill the black holes of need around us, even if that means sacrificing the time and concentration we need to be creative.
malcolmgladwellbookgenerator.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Amy Hertz, Huffington Post: What comes after "The Tipping Point"? A book titled "Nothing," on sandcastles, or "The Tripping Point," which can't rememb...
Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
According to the documents made available by WikiLeaks, upon leaving office Mr. Mubarak will receive $40 billion but will not be allowed to serve as dictator of another country for six months.
Peter Mehlman | Posted 02.07.2012 | Comedy