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Stephen Colbert Questions Malcolm Gladwell On His Quest For Connections (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 11.18.2009 | Books

Read More: Outliers, Blink, Authors, Malcolm Gladwell, Author Interviews, What the Dog Saw, Stephen Colbert, Books, Malcolm Gladwell What the Dog Saw, Colbert Report, Gladwell, Tipping Point, Books News

Malcolm Gladwell was on "The Colbert Report" last night talking about his new book, "What the Dog Saw". He and Stephen discussed his never-ending curi...

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Malcolm Gladwell and the Case For Endless Self-Googling

David Quigg | Posted 11.16.2009 | Books

Read More: Outliers, The New Yorker, Book Reviews, What the Dog Saw, Essays, Writer, Steven Pinker, Gladwell, Tipping Point, Blink, Eigenvalue, Igon Value, Authors, Self-Googling, Algebra, New York Times, Malcolm Gladwell, Books, Books News, Google, Books News
David Quigg

I piled cringe upon cringe Friday -- first because I read Steven Pinker's vivisection of Malcolm Gladwell's new collection, second because of what I found when I Googled a flub Pinker wielded against Gladwell.

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Malcolm Gladwell's "What The Dog Saw": Great Writing, Suspect Science

The New York Times | STEVEN PINKER | Posted 11.13.2009 | Books

Read More: Outliers, Tipping Point, Book Reviews, Blink, Authors, Essays, Writer, Malcolm Gladwell, What the Dog Saw, Steven Pinker, Books, Gladwell, Books News

Fortunately for "What the Dog Saw," the essay format is a better showcase for Gladwell's talents, because the constraints of length and editors yield ...

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Too Big To Fail: Joe Gregory, Former Lehman President, Swore By Malcolm Gladwell, Myers-Briggs

craptheblog.tumblr.com | Moe Tkacik | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Joe Gregory, Malcolm Gladwell, Lehman Brothers, Dick Fuld, Business News

Page 120 of Andrew Ross Sorkin's Too Big To Fail addresses the problem of bankers being too dumb to read. (Hey, you can't say Gladwell didn't warn us ...

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My Failure at SEO: A Writer's Confession about Internet Marketing: Or, Why You Probably Won't Find Me Easily Online

Tamar Chansky | Posted 10.28.2009 | Technology

Read More: Google, Joan Didion, Internet, Writers, Marketing, Malcolm Gladwell, Ann Beattie, Seo, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Pr, Key Words, Technology News
Tamar Chansky

SEO is stealth, it's sleek; it's all about titles that are short, searchable and to the point. It doesn't cater to the clever book title or site name, it could care less about how erudite you are.

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In Praise of Slow Thinking

Carl Honore | Posted 10.23.2009 | Books

Read More: Milan Kundera, Creativity, Einstein, Fast Thinking, Slow Thinking, In Praise of Slowness, Malcolm Gladwell, Books, Slow, Darwin, Slow Movement, Google, Books News
Carl Honore

Slow Thinking is intuitive, woolly and creative. It is what we do when the pressure is off, and there is time to let ideas simmer on the back burner. It yields rich, nuanced insights and sometimes surprising breakthroughs.

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Columbia Axes Environmental Journalism, and Malcolm Gladwell Is Okay With That

Alex Pasternack | Posted 10.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Environment, Malcolm Gladwell, Journalism, Green News, Journalism School, Columbia University, Columbia Journalism School, Media News
Alex Pasternack

The media needs to get over the superficial, celebrity-soaked fad approach to environmental journalism and deliver something that people want: more and better in-depth environmental news.

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Malcolm Gladwell: Aspiring Journalists Should Skip J-School

Posted 10.20.2009 | Media

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Malcolm Gladwell told TIME magazine that he would tell aspiring young journalists today to skip journalism school and study something else instead. "...

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Book Review Round-Up

Posted 10.19.2009 | Books

Read More: They Knew Then, Sunday Book Review, Book Review, Book Reviews, Half-Broke Horses, The Wild Things, Malcolm Gladwell, What the Dog Saw, Stripping Bare the Body, Books, Chronic City, Lydia Davis, Spooner, Books News

Your weekly book review round-up: The Wild Things, Dave Eggers The San Francisco Chronicle The reader knows from the picture book how the story will...

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The Top 15 Business Thinkers: Thinkers 50

Posted 10.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Steve Jobs, Gary Hamel, Slidepoll, Bill Gates, Michael Porter, S.Kris Gopalakrishnan, Malcolm Gladwell, CK Prahlad, Muhammad Yunus, Marshall Goldsmith, Rantan Tata, Paul Krugman, Most Influential Business Thinkers, Ram Charam, Philip Kotler, Thinkers 50, Business News

Amidst the thousands of management tomes published every year, there are only a few truly influential collections of business wisdom. But measuring th...

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Learning To Love Foods You Don't Like

Darya Pino | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Food, Diet, Health, Health Foods, Blink, Taste. Flavor, Nutrition, Malcolm Gladwell, Darya Pino, Health Food, Living News
Darya Pino

While it's true that taste is subjective, I've never heard a convincing argument that it's better to dislike a food than to like it. It is certainly more fun to like things, and it is often far more convenient.

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Genius: a Talk With Edwidge Danticat

Martha St Jean | Posted 09.24.2009 | World

Read More: Macarthur Foundation, Florida, Author, Third World, Writer, Edwidge Danticat, Haitians, Malcolm Gladwell, Grid, Haiti, Wyclef Jean, Malcolm Gladwell Outliers, Third World Countries, MacArthur Genius Award, Edwidge-Dandicat-Memoir, Haitian-American, Aids, World News
Martha St Jean

"When [my first novel] was just published, people walked up to me and told me that someone who worked at their house is Haitian," Danticat said. "Now there are a number of people telling me that their doctor is Haitian."

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Stock Picks and Fake Smiles

Lee Schneider | Posted 11.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Intuition, Warren Buffett, Malcolm Gladwell, Stock Market, Pick Winning Stocks, Richard Wiseman, Jim Cramer, Living News
Lee Schneider

When you are working with an unstable system, like the stock market or a gun battle or both having too much on your mind will slow you down.

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What Makes Successful CEOs Tick?

Leslie Pratch, Ph.D. | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Success, Leadership, Mentors, Business, Talent, Malcolm Gladwell Outliers, Don Shula, Successful CEOs, Ceos, Malcolm Gladwell, CEO Traits, Business News
Leslie Pratch, Ph.D.

What makes for uber-success? It is not sheer intellect, and it's not only social skill. It is, as Malcolm Gladwell defines talent, deliberate practice.

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Bait and Switch Business Relationships

Don McNay | Posted 08.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Al Gore, Img, Lawyers, Small Business, Toronto, Bait and Switch, Zagat, Trial Attorneys, Inc. Magazine, Strategic Coach, Marriage, Claims, Richmond Ky, Tiger Woods, American Bar Association, Cincinnati, Injured People, Kentucky Association for Justice, Lottery Winners, Personal Finance, McNay Settlement Group, Business-Relationships, Trial Lawyers, Structured Settlement, Msfs, Relationships, Chfc, Mark McCormick, Twitter, Kentucky, Don McNay, Malcolm Gladwell, Facebook, Structured Settlements, Clu, American Association for Justice, Vanderbilt University, Jack Nicklaus, Claims Adjusters, Dan Sullivan, Eastern Kentucky University, Million Dollar Round Table, Arnold Palmer, Certified Structured Settlement Consultant, The Tipping Point, Cssc, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneur, Gary Player, Business News
Don McNay

Sometimes entrepreneurs are so focused on a higher goal that they forget about the people who help get them there.

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Clash of Titans: Anderson Vs. Gladwell

Charles Warner | Posted 08.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Chris Anderson, Malcolm Gladwell, Free, Janet Maslin, Media News
Charles Warner

After reading Gladwell's review (which, to Anderson's point and ironically, is free on the New Yorker's website), I got the distinct impression that Gladwell was being a little jealous and piqued.

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Late Bloomers?

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 08.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Mental Disorders, Mental Illness, Cezanne, Mental Health, Daniel Defoe, Robinson-Crusoe, Sigmund Freud, Malcolm Gladwell, Mark Twain, Henri Matisse, Living News
Lloyd I. Sederer, MD

Recovery, making a life of contribution despite and with a mental illness, is about hope and belief and patience and persistence.

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A Great Debate About Ideas

Tim Berry | Posted 08.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Ellen Goodman, Seth Godin, Twitter, Journalism, Free, Mark Cuban, Bloggers, Books, Malcolm Gladwell, Chris Anderson, Media News
Tim Berry

In his book Free, Chris Anderson gathered the wood and laid out the fire by saying news, information, music, and films are going to be free.

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Malcolm Gladwell and Others Bring a Novel Approach to Book Readings

Danny Groner | Posted 07.30.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Malcolm Gladwell Outliers, Q&A, Chuck Klosterman, Reading, James Frey, Books, Pop Culture, Malcolm Gladwell, Book, Reader Q & A, Brainstorms, Entertainment News
Danny Groner

Reading aloud from their books, authors hope that readers will relate to the material, its characters, themes, comedic moments and underlying messages. When writers can convey these elements themselves, it's even more potentially provocative and lucrative.

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Educators Urged to Allow Their Students to Fail

Esther Wojcicki | Posted 07.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Educational Technology, Education, Necc, Education Reform, Technology, Malcolm Gladwell, Tipping Point, Iste, Living News
Esther Wojcicki

In today's world, many students in the U.S. schools aren't taught to work hard.

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Expert As Frenemy: Notes On The New Yorker Summit

Sanjay Khanna | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Climate Change, The New Yorker, Politics, Afghanistan, Hope, Pakistan, Naomi Klein, Bear Stearns, Frenemy, Malcolm Gladwell, Iraq, Barack Obama, Experts, Poverty, World, Politics News
Sanjay Khanna

Human nature leads us to turn towards expert-dependent disciplines to save us from ourselves but to what extent are experts -- and our own competence -- the frenemy in our midst?

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Amazon's Kindle DX: The End of Paper?

Dan Dubno | Posted 06.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos, Dan Dubno, Joe Jacobson, New York Times, Kindle DX, Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com Kindle, Boston Globe, Malcolm Gladwell, Media News
Dan Dubno

Everyone who has predicted the demise of paper has so far been completely wrong. But that was before the advent of a fully-functional full-figured e-book reader.

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Why Little Louie Can Never Be A Genius

Gerald Sindell | Posted 06.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Bill Gates, Larry Page, Malcolm Gladwell, Genius, Malcolm-Gladwell-Outliers, David Brooks, Living News
Gerald Sindell

Only a very few of have a certain level of gift that is completely beyond anything 10,000 or even a million hours of focused work can give you. These are the geniuses. And their gift came from inside.

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Susan Boyle, Gay Marriage, and Not Trusting Your Gut

Jay Michaelson | Posted 05.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Gay Rights, Susan Boyle, Martin Luther King, Youtube, Racism, Morality, Malcolm Gladwell, Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, Entertainment News
Jay Michaelson

I've learned, however, not to dignify the "gut reactions" of bigotry with any kind of value. This is how moral progress takes place: we learn to stop trusting the gut reactions based on falsehoods we've been taught.

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And The Geeks Shall Pwn The Earth

Aisha Tyler | Posted 05.09.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Mark Zuckerberg, Judd Apatow, Pwn, Malcolm Gladwell, Trendy Geeks, Seth Rogan, Aisha Tyler, Geeks Pwn Earth, Geeks, Comedy News
Aisha Tyler

Thankfully for recovering childhood nerds like me, geeks have recently, finally, come into vogue. Witness the ambivalent, doughy sexiness of a Seth Rogen, or the oddly attractive post-pubescent cool of a Michael Cera

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