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基本信息·出版社：Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
·页码：365 页
·出版日期：2009年06月
·ISBN：0141043024
·International Standard Book Number：0141043024
·条形码：9780141043029
·EAN：9780141043029
·装帧：Perfect Paperback
内容简介 Why are people successful? For centuries, humankind has grappled with this question, searching for the secret to accomplishing great things. In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an invigorating intellectual journey to show us what makes an extreme overachiever. He reveals that we pay far too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where successful people are from. Gladwell examines how the careers of Bill Gates and the performance of world-class football players are alike; why so many top lawyers are Jewish; why Asians are good at maths and why it is correct to say that the mathematician who solved Fermat's Theorem is not a genius. Like Blink, this is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.
作者简介 Author, journalist, cultural commentator and intellectual adventurer, Malcolm Gladwell was born in 1963 in England to a Jamaican mother and an English mathematician father. He grew up in Canada and graduated with a degree in history from the University of Toronto in 1984. From 1987 to 1996, he was a reporter for the Washington Post, first as a science writer and then as New York City bureau chief. Since 1996, he has been a staff writer for the New Yorker magazine. His curiosity and breadth of interests are shown in New Yorker articles ranging over a wide array of subjects including early childhood development and the flu, not to mention hair dye, shopping and what it takes to be cool. His phenomenal bestseller The Tipping Point captured the world’s attention with its theory that a curiously small change can have unforeseen effects, and the phrase has become part of our language, used by writers, politicians and business people everywhere to describe cultural trends and strange phenomena. How first impressions lead to snap judgements inspired his next bestselling book, BLINK: The Power of Thinking without Thinking, which reveals how the power of 'blink' could fundamentally transform our relationships, the way we consume, create and communicate, how we run our businesses and even our societies. OUTLIERS: The Story of Success, is Gladwell’s eagerly anticipated new book on success. It takes us on an invigorating intellectual journey to show us what makes an extreme overachiever. Just as he did in BLINK, Gladwell overturns many of our conventional notions and creates an entirely new model for seeing the world. "The most influential thinker for the i-pod generation" The Observer An art expert realise a ten-million-dollar sculpture is a fake – in a flash? A fire fighter make the decision to leave a blazing building – just before it collapses? A police officer read a life or death situation – in a split second? A marriage counsellor look at a couple – and predict that they will stay together? In Blink, Malcolm Gladwell gives us a radical new way of understanding the world and ourselves There are lots of books that tackle broad themes, that analyze the world from a great remove. This is not one of them. Blink is concerned with the very smallest components of our everyday lives – with the content and origin of those instantaneous impressions and conclusions that bubble up whenever we meet a new person, or confront a complex situation, or have to make a decision under conditions of stress. When it comes to the task of understanding ourselves and our world, I think we pay too much attention to those grand themes, and too little to the particulars of those fleeting moments. But what would happen if we took our instincts seriously? What if we stopped scanning the horizon with our binoculars and began instead to examine our own decision-making and behaviour through the most powerful of microscopes? I think that would change the way wars are fought, the kind of products we see on the shelves, the kinds of movies that get made, the way police officers are trained, the way couples are counselled, the way job interviews are conducted and on and on – and if you combine all of those changes together you end up with a different and better world. I believe that the task of making sense of ourselves and our behaviour requires that we acknowledge there can be as much value in a moment as there is in many months of rational analysis. Just as we can teach ourselves to think logically and deliberately, we can also teach ourselves to make better snap judgements. In Blink you will meet doctors and generals and coaches and furniture designers and musicians and actors and car salesmen and countless others – all of whom are very good at what they do and all of whom owe their success, at least in part, to the steps they have taken to shape and manage and educate their unconscious reactions. The power of knowing, in those first two seconds is not a gift given magically to a fortunate few. It is an ability that we can all build for ourselves. Think of Blink as a tool kit. ‘Gladwell’s theories could be used to run a business more effectively, to turn products into runaway bestsellers, and perhaps most important, to alter human behaviour’ The New York Times
专业书评 Observer 'A global phenomenon, one of the most brilliant and influential writers of his generation ... there is, it sometimes seems, no subject over which Gladwell cannot scatter some magic dust ... he has a genius for making everything he writes seem like an impossible adventure' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
The Times 'His inspiring, revelatory attempt to look at the qualities that aren't mentioned enough in a culture of individualism ... he is the best kind of writer - the kind who makes you feel like you're a genius, rather than that he's a genius' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Guardian 'Gladwell is not only a brilliant storyteller; he can see what those stories tell us, the lessons they contain ... and Gladwell shows that it can be immense fun' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Evening Standard 'An exceptionally well-written book ... like a 90,000 word essay by Geroge Orwell, with a bit of help from Jonathan Kellerman ... I wanted to cheer or clap ... Outliers is perhaps the ultimate Gladwell book' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
