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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference Paperback – 1 August 2001

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'A wonderful page-turner about a fascinating idea that should affect the way every thinking person thinks about the world around him' Michael Lewis

In this brilliant and original book, Malcolm Gladwell explains and analyses the 'tipping point', that magic moment when ideas, trends and social behaviour cross a threshold, tip and spread like wildfire. Taking a look behind the surface of many familiar occurrences in our everyday world, Gladwell explains the fascinating social dynamics that cause rapid change.

'Hip and hopeful, THE TIPPING POINT is like the idea it describes: concise, elegant but packed with social power. A book for anyone who cares about how society works and how we can make it better' George Stephanopoulos

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Publisher : Abacus; 1st edition (1 August 2001)
Language : English
Paperback : 288 pages
ISBN-10 : 0349113467
ISBN-13 : 978-0349113463
Dimensions : 19.8 x 2 x 16 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 6,695 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A wonderful page-turner about a fascinating idea that should affect the way every thinking person thinks about the world around him

Genuinely fascinating and frequently startling . . . The kind of book from which you'll be regaling your friends with intriguing snippets for weeks to come ― Scotland on Sunday

A wonderfully offbeat study of that little-understood phenomenon, the social epidemic ― Daily Telegraph

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Hip and hopeful, THE TIPPING POINT is like the idea it describes: concise, elegant but packed with social power. A book for anyone who cares about how society works and how we can make it better - George Stephanopoulos

A wonderful page-turner about a fascinating idea that should affect the way every thinking person thinks about the world around him - Michael Lewis, author of LIAR'S POKER

Genuinely fascinating and frequently startling . . . The kind of book from which you'll be regaling your friends with intriguing snippets for weeks to come - SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY

A wonderfully offbeat study of that little-understood phenomenon, the social epidemic - DAILY TELEGRAPH

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Rob

A great read

Reviewed in Australia on 13 August 2019

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Great read - but not as good as Outliers

Reviewed in Australia on 24 May 2018

I enjoyed this a lot. It was a right choice to get the audiobook version as the story isn't too difficult to follow.

I love the way Malcolm Gladwell backs up his points with research and facts (something he has made a career out of).

However I listened to this after Outliers and was expecting a little more, given how much I enjoyed that book. Regardless, it's definitely worth a read or listen.

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Keith Farrell

Quite thought-provoking. The book offers several real-world examples of ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 July 2017

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Quite thought-provoking. The book offers several real-world examples of situations where different companies and organisations found "tipping points" in their business or activities, and these examples are very well analysed and explained. The book is quite comprehensive in terms of analysing "tipping points" that have happened, and the elements that create these "tipping points".

The one downside to the book is that it doesn't quite manage to tie everything together into giving advice about how to create a "tipping point" for your own business. It all seems to boil down to "know the right people", and "do the right thing at the right time". It can explain very well why "tipping points" have happened, but it doesn't explain so well how to create a "tipping point" for your own organisation or activities. If this is the kind of advice you are looking for, then the book is not going to achieve your goals completely. However, I must reiterate that it gives superb explanations of "tipping points" that have happened, these analyses are very thought provoking, and you could certainly take many of the lessons and ideas and try to apply them to your own business.

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Louai R

Not as good as Outliers; several contradictions and too repetitive

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 February 2017

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I had recently read the 'Outliers' by Gladwell and enjoyed it; with such books you need to have the right approach; that is to have an open mind and not expect empirical-based conclusions, but rather be prepared to read and enjoy amusing and thought-provoking correlations and observations from selective situations. This book however stunned me. It was written around 7-8 years before the 'Outliers' and you could easily tell how Gladwell's maturity had evolved in that period. This book is so repetitive in its themes, redundant in asserting its conclusions and simply boring in its overall flow. While I found many of the examples amusing in the 'Outliers', here they lacked originality and intrigue. What struck me initially was how Gladwell had provided a totally different explanation as to why crime fell in NYC in this book, than to what he later mentioned in the Outliers. Why the dramatic change of opinion? I will not go in much details so as not to spoil this for those who are yet to read his books. His example on the success of Sesame Street was so protracted and based on the unique discipline of child psychology that I am not sure how transferable the conclusion here was to his overrriding theories. His conclusions on teenage smoking can be easily refuted based on recent studies (remember the book was written around 15 years ago). And lastly, I was so dumbfounded by his observations on suicides in Micronesia that I decided to test the study myself. He mentions a suicide rate of 170 per 100,000 and concludes how it was one of the highest in the world. I checked for myself that in that period of time the entire population of Micronesia was around 70,000 and so the actual statistical population was so small and there were so many isolated cases that he had already mentioned that any statistician would yield their results as unacceptable (in light of the small statistical population) and in need of adjustment. Having said all that, his theory on the tipping point is not unfounded and could have better been presented in a long new yorker-style article, rather than a protracted book filled with either dubious or naive examples.

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Great read and applicable in the workplace!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 June 2020

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This book has shaped the way I manage my work.

Gladwell for me has a mixed bag of books. However Tipping Point, along with Patrick Lencioni’s ‘The Seven Dysfunctions Of A Team’ has had a huge impact on my working practices.

Tipping point provides a thoughtful insight into what creates change and different types of people have different roles in change.

My work is in the public sector and I manage teams that look to work with the community. We would have an annoying obsession of treating all people equally in terms of what we’re asked them and would often achieve limited results.

Since trying to apply the concepts within Tipping Point I have managed to completely change the way we operate, spending time trying to understand the type of individuals we have both in the community and within the team and using those natural traits to assume Roles within the team that suit there strengths.

This has led to drastically improved results ... both in terms of what we achieved and the process to get there

Tipping Point as a fun, readable book that is just simply a great read... but it’s also hugely useful to anyone looking to affect change in business or communities. I can’t recommend this book enough.

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Malcolm Gladwell Explains the Secret to Enable you to Launch a Product Successfully

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 March 2020

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Working in business I’ve often heard people talk about using significant resources or budget is a requirement.

For example to launch a company or product.

These people tend to come from a background of “throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick”.

What if you don’t have a lot of budget? Time? Or resources? Or what if you want to persevere the capability you have?

In “Tipping Point” Malcolm Gladwell explains the secret to enable you to hack the tipping point, going viral, launch point.

The secret? You need connectors, mavens and salespeople from that you can create and execute a word of mouth campaign.

If you work in the field of leadership, sales and marketing then this book is worth a read.

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Margaret Adams

I find those very tedious, and the worshiping practically of successful business men

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 September 2016

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I'm not really in a position to review this book yet as I'm still not half way through. I'm finding it a bit hard work, painful even, a bit American, but I have watched a lot of the author's talks on Youtube, so this spoils it for me. So many references to American popular culture and to the American civil war. I find those very tedious, and the worshiping practically of successful business men, I can't relate to. He does it to illustrate a point, the tipping point, but, there's just something about the genre I'm not keen on. I'd rather he used climate change to illustrate the tipping point, because it's more relevant and important to everyone on earth, and not just Americans. Maybe he will later, as I said, I'm less than half way through, and struggling to find the impetus to carry on! (It might improve because I think he's a brilliant speaker and an original thinker, so I hate to be critical. but I can't stand this style of writing.)

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