From the Author of The Tipping Point

Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell
Originally published in hardcover in 2008 - Little, Brown

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Although I was corrected by a Barnes and Noble clerk recently, I do believe this is the best of his books. While granted, Tipping Point is a captivating book, I found the Outliers a bit more concrete and a tad more engaging. (The one thing the B&N clerk and I did agree on is Blink's lack of brilliance.)


Amazon description - In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different?


His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band. 


Brilliant and entertaining, Outliers is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.