Malcolm Gladwell

Blank

Peter Mehlman | Posted 02.07.2012 | Comedy

Read More: LA Times, Opinion, Henry Waxman, Malcolm Gladwell, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Comedy, Blank the Movie, Humor, Blank Movie, Satire, Political Satire, Peter Mehlman Blank, Video, Comedy News

Blank is the story of Eugene Brusca, a man who had absolutely no opinions on anything, yet became an overnight sensation as a columnist for the Los Angeles Times.

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Better Late Than Never

Irene Tanner | Posted 01.16.2012 | Fifty

Read More: Malcolm Gladwell, Jobs, Careers, Better Late Than Never, Advanced Style, Late Bloomers, Ari Seth Cohen, Consecutive Careers, Fifty News

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.

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Mozart, Newton and You?

Lisa Randall | Posted 01.05.2012 | Science

Read More: Creativity, Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell, Talent, Mozart, David Brooks, Discovery, Geniuses, Genius, Science News

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.

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Bank Of America Thought He Was A Good Idea

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.17.2012 | Business

Read More: Eat the Press, Video, Rich People Things, Economic Crisis, Bank of America, Banks, Malcolm Gladwell, Malcolm Gladwell Blink, Big Banks, Business News

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!

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Bank Of America Nabs Malcolm Gladwell To Educate Small Business Owners

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 11.16.2011 | Business

Read More: Video, Small Business, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, The Awl, Bank of America, Citibank, Entrepreneurs, Foreclosure, Malcolm Gladwell, Small Business Lending, Business News

Struggling small businesses need not fear any longer: Malcolm Gladwell is on the way, sponsored by Bank of America. Gladwell, the bestselling write...

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Where I Like To Read

Malcolm Gladwell | Posted 01.04.2012 | Books

Read More: Tipping Point, Blink, Steve Jobs Biography, Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell, Reading, Where I Read, Books News

My favorite place to read is airplanes.

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New Yorker Festival Lineup Announced

Posted 10.25.2011 | Culture

Read More: New Yorker, Aziz Ansari, New Yorker Festival 2011, Jonathan Franzen, Nancy Pelosi, New Yorker Festival, Malcolm Gladwell, David Cronenberg, Ralph Fiennes, Culture News

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...

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Contrary to Gladwell, NBA Owners Do Get to Have Their Cake and Eat It, Too

Jonathan Weiler | Posted 10.24.2011 | Sports

Read More: Philip Anschutz, Tom Yawkey, Nba Lockout, Mark Cuban, David Stern, Crony Capitalism, Malcolm Gladwell, Staples Center, Sports News

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.

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Networking for Innovation

Gary Liberson, PhD | Posted 10.15.2011 | Technology

Read More: Clayton Christensen, Innovation, Malcolm Gladwell, Networking, Disruptive Technology, Technology News

Can innovation be learned? YES, but only for those with the right personality.

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Still Time to Vote: Chatting With Atlantic Records & Rolling Stone Contest Finalists Lelia Broussard and The Sheepdogs

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.

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Bobby Fischer: Against the World, and Against Me

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.

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The New Hottest Spot For An Author On A Book Tour

nytimes.com | KATHARINE MIESZKOWSKI | Posted 07.13.2011 | Books

Read More: Author Tour, Google, Google Speakers Program, Mountain View, Author Appearance, Book Tour, Digital Books, Malcolm Gladwell, Google Books, Ebooks, Books News

For authors and other creative professionals, an appearance at the Googleplex, the company's sprawling complex of office buildings, is good business -...

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Spotted Reading In Public: What Have We Seen You Reading Recently? (PHOTOS)

Posted 07.13.2011 | Books

Read More: East of Eden, John Steinbeck, Tick Tock, James Patterson, A Discovery of Witches, The Physiology of Taste, I Was Told There'd Be Cake, Malcolm Gladwell, Lush Life, Spotted Reading in Public, When the Killing's Done, Wagner's Ring, Deobrah Harkness, The Tipping Point, The Ethics of What We Eat, T.C. Boyle, Sloane Crosley, Richard Price, Books News

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...

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PHOTOS: 10 Writers’ Unruly, Manly Manes

flavorwire.com | Posted 07.10.2011 | Books

Read More: Nadeem Aslam, Jerzy Kosinski, Writers, Neil Gaiman, Jack Kerouac, Crazy Hair, Homer, Martin Amis, David Foster Wallace, Bernard-Henri Levy, Malcolm Gladwell, Frederick Douglass, Books News

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,...

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How To Build Your Business For The Virtual Workforce

Brett Caine | Posted 06.07.2011 | Business

Read More: Small Business America, Small Business, Virtual Workplace, Malcolm Gladwell, Virtual Workforce, Business News

With the creation of new here and now workplaces, the opportunity for on-demand collaboration and business innovation is limitless.

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Gladwell's Views on Entrepreneurs

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 05.31.2011 | Business

Read More: Tipping Point, Outliers, Mark Zuckerberg, Innovation, Malcolm Gladwell, Ted Turner, Taking Risks, Entrepreneurs, Social Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship, Small Business America, Business News

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.

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Scorecasting: A Good Read, Whether We Need It or Not

Joe Favorito | Posted 05.25.2011 | Sports

Read More: Thomas Friedman, Freakonomics, Sports Illustrated, Kobe Bryant, Jon Wertheim, Harvard Business School, Malcolm Gladwell, Los Angeles, Nba, Sports News

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...

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Why Malcolm Gladwell Should Apologize to Social Media

Edward Lee | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Read More: Egypt Protests, Social Media, Twitter, Tipping Point, Egypt Revolution, Youtube, Khaled Said, Malcolm Gladwell, Facebook, Media News

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.

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Gutenberg of Arabia

Jeff Jarvis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Read More: Wael Ghonim, #jan25, Internet, Facebook, Malcolm Gladwell, Egypt, Gutenberg, Egypt Revolution, Mark Zuckerberg, Hosni Mubarak, Printing Press, Media News

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.

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Victory for Egypt's Leaderless Revolution

Michael Hais and Morley Winograd | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Wael Ghonim, Cairo Protests, Hosni Mubarak, Egypt Revolution, Malcolm Gladwell, Tahrir Square, World News

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.

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Spotted Reading In Public: The Classics We Saw You Reading (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Read More: Slidepollajax, Malcolm Gladwell, Reading in Public, J.D. Salinger, Elements of Style, Stieg Larsson, Jane Austen, Spotted Reading in Public, Books, Books News

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...

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When Schools Get in the Way of Education

Susan Sawyers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Education

Read More: Malcolm Gladwell, Tfa, New Orleans Schools, Teach for America, Wendy Kopp, School of the Future, Charter Schools, Education News

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.

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Our Muses, Ourselves: Why Women Like Me Run Away From Home

Holly Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Read More: Creativity, Book Publishing, Virginia Woolf, Susan Straight, Grace Paley, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Muses, Take One Candle Light a Room, The Gerbil Farmer's Daughter, Canada, Prince Edward Island, Art, Gift From the Sea, Writing, Malcolm Gladwell, Women in the Arts, Books News

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.

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The Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator

malcolmgladwellbookgenerator.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Read More: Authors, Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point, National Bestseller, Bestseller, Bestsellers, Blink, Books News

Amy Hertz, Huffington Post: What comes after "The Tipping Point"? A book titled "Nothing," on sandcastles, or "The Tripping Point," which can't rememb...

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WikiLeaks Reveals Details of Mubarak's Severance Package

Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy

Read More: Borowitz Report, Twitter, Andy Borowitz, Cairo, Egypt, Los Angeles Times, Hosni Mubarak, Malcolm Gladwell, Piers Morgan, Wikileaks, Las Vegas, Comedy News

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.

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