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Tag: Malcolm Gladwell

  • THREE characteristics that define fulfilling work..

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book Outliers

    Three things – autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and rewardare, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.

  • This is what PRACTICE means to OUTLIERS..

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book Outliers

    Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.”

  • Ever wondered why UNDERDOGS prevail? This explains..

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath

    There is a set of advantages that have to do with material resources, and there is a set that have to do with the absence of material resources- and the reason underdogs win as often as they do is that the latter is sometimes every bit the equal of the former.”

  • This is why EMPATHY improves decision making..

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath

    The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.”

  • The power of SNAP judgements comes through experience , this explains..

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book Blink

    Our unconscious reactions come out of a locked room, and we can’t look inside that room. but with experience we become expert at using our behavior and our training to interpret – and decode – what lies behind our snap judgment and first impressions.”

  • The STORYTELLING conundrum explained..

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath

    We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We’re a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don’t really have an explanation for.”

  • There is a relationship between PROGRESS and UNREASONABILITY..this explains

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath

    The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

  • The law of LEGITIMACY and its THREE principles

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book David and Goliath

    Legitimacy is based on three things. First of all, the people who are asked to obey authority have to feel like they have a voice–that if they speak up, they will be heard. Second, the law has to be predictable. There has to be a reasonable expectation that the rules tomorrow are going to be roughly the same as the rules today. And third, the authority has to be fair. It can’t treat one group differently from another.”

  • To spark WORD of the MOUTH epidemics , these TWO key personalities can immensely help..

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book Tipping Point

    A Connector might tell ten friends where to stay in Los Angeles, and half of them might take his advice. A Maven might tell five people where to stay in Los Angeles but make the case for the hotel so emphatically that all of them would take his advice. These are different personalities at work, acting for different reasons. But they both have the power to spark word-of-mouth epidemics.”

  • For anything to TIP beyond a THRESHOLD, these are the THREE LAWS

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Malcolm Gladwell from the book Tipping Point

    The three rules of the Tipping Point—the Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor, the Power of Context—offer a way of making sense of epidemics. They provide us with direction for how to go about reaching a Tipping Point.”