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Connecting is not Enough: Are you Getting out Enough?
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
[Huffington Post UK (blog)] - A "relationship-focused" meeting each week is, according to Suster, "the entrepreneur's equivalent of hours", referring to Malcolm Gladwell's claim in 'Outliers' that the key to success in any field is, to a large extent, a matter of practicing a
The Table Comes First by Adam Gopnik: review
www.telegraph.co.uk
[Telegraph.co.uk] - it's clear that like his stablemate Malcolm Gladwell, Gopnik sees himself as new sort of aggregating philosopher. But his assumed audience is quite narrow, and while a blurb on the jacket says the book addresses the tastes of “our modern society”
Guardian: Steven Pinker: fighting talk from the prophet of peace
[The Guardian] - He's also a prolific and high-selling author of popular books about his subject, which has led some unkind academics to describe him as "the thinking man's Malcolm Gladwell", which is unfair because Pinker, unlike Gladwell, is a distinguished
Guardian: Occupy Together: how the global movement is spreading via social media
[The Guardian (blog)] - Photograph: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis At the beginning of October last year Malcolm Gladwell wrote in the New Yorker that activism via social media was no more than "weak-tie connections" which "makes it easier for activists to express themselves
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