39 days ago by kkharsa

I combed through my RSS feeds and bookmarks for what I felt where the most useful things I read or saw this year on the web. Because of their resonance, they’re resources I’ll probably refer to again and again in 2012. The themes center around hard work, success and living an artistic life. I’ve org ...

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46 days ago by Carlos Climente

Ahora que ya sabéis que estoy enganchado a TED.com, os puedo contar que ayer vi una ponencia espectacular de Malcolm Gladwell -autor de Tipping Point y Blink, entre otros- en la que hablaba de cómo Howard Moskowitz reinventó la salsa de spaghetti y, de paso, los test de producto que con él pasaron a ...

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67 days ago by Lan Vay

Famed Canadian author, journalist and thinker Malcolm Gladwell’s bestselling books, The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers, are now available in a collection simply titled “Malcolm Gladwell: Collected.” Each book deals with intriguing topics in sociology and psychology, and seem to be required readi ...

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74 days ago by De Beschermheer

De Beschermheer zag onlangs Malcolm Gladwell in het echt en concludeerde: dit is een rasverteller. Zoals dat gaat bij zo’n gelegenheid stond hij voor hij het zelf in de gaten had met een tweetal boeken van de beste man in de handen, een totaal ongeplande aankoop. En als je dat soort boeken eenmaal h ...

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75 days ago by ablogtodiffer

Poate ca stiti deja regula celor 10 000 de ore. Daca nu, iata varianta pe scurt: Malcolm Gladwell sustine, in cartea sa Exceptionalii, ca este nevoie de 10 000 de ore de munca si efort sustinut pentru a atinge nivelul de maiestrie asociat cu calitatea de expert de talie mondiala, in orice domeniu. E ...

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79 days ago by hakka3

Not even as many people as Mr. Six-Degrees-of-Separation, Stanley Milgram, thought. A new study by scientists at Facebook and the University of Milan put the number of degrees of separation at 4.74!?

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81 days ago by amcgrann

If you’ve taught long enough, I’m sure you’ve been able to recognize certain talents in your students. How much of that talent was nurtured so that your students were able to practice for over 10,000 hours? If you’ve read Sir … Continue reading →

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82 days ago by Gurpreet Singh

One of the better aspects of life these days is the amount of time available to read books, articles and the tremendous scope to increase knowledge base. In the infinite options to read books, one has to spend quite a lot of time just to choose the kind of book that will be of interest. [...]

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82 days ago by Stephen Clark

Is it safe to say that the decline and fall of Malcolm Gladwell is well on its way, if not complete? It was announced today that Gladwell will be receiving paychecks from Bank of America to help them woo Small Business owners to use BofA for their banking needs. I never really saw or bought into all ...

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88 days ago by Mike Cook

“The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan.” William Deresiewicz I got around to reading an Op-Ed piece in the NY Times by William Deresiewicz titled ‘Generation Sell’ on Sunday morning from which I took the quote I opened with here. In a piece I found very enjoyable to read, D ...

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