Malcolm Gladwell is a United Kingdom-born, Canadian-raised journalist now based in New York City. He is a former business and science writer at the Washington Post. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He is best known as the author of the books The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (2000), Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005), Outliers: The Story of Success (2008) and David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants (2013)..
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"The best way to understand the dramatic transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life," writes Malcolm Gladwell, "is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do." Although anyone familiar with the theory of memetics will recognize this concept, Gladwell's The Tipping Point has quite a few interesting twists on the subject.For example, Paul Revere was able to galvanize the forces of resistance so effectively in part because he was what Gladwell calls a "Connector": he knew just about everybody, particularly the revolutionary leaders in each of the towns that he rode through. But Revere "wasn't just the man with the biggest Rolodex in colonial Boston," he was also a "Maven" who gathered extensive information about the British. He knew what was going on and he knew exactly whom to tell. The phenomenon continues to this day--think of how often you've received information in an e-mail message that had been forwarded at least half a dozen times before reaching you.Gladwell develops these and other concepts (such as the "stickiness" of ideas or the effect of population size on information dispersal) through simple, clear explanations and entertainingly illustrative anecdotes, such as comparing the pedagogical methods of Sesame Street and Blue's Clues, or explaining why it would be even easier to play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon with the actor Rod Steiger. Although some readers may find the transitional passages between chapters hold their hands a little too tightly, and Gladwell's closing invocation of the possibilities of social engineering sketchy, even chilling, The Tipping Point is one of the most effective books on science for a general audience in ages. It seems inevitable that "tipping point," like "future shock" or "chaos theory," will soon become one of those ideas that everybody knows--or at least knows by name. --Ron Hogan
春节期间,花了点时间读了这本书。中信出版社出版的,可能是翻译上的问题吧,觉得有些地方不是很通顺,但是不影响对主题的理解。 老外就是有科学的研究精神,很常见的流行事件,能用科学的思维方式去加以概括,并指引人去解释生活中的流行事件,进而去引发、创造流行事件。 ...
评分对于这本书,可以肯定在西方社会流行程度会超过中国,西人擅长理学,逻辑实证精神一直备受推崇,所谓知其然更知其所以然,而东方思维大抵反之,之前看了较多日本设计大家的经典,也当是换个口味。 确实,书里的例子重复引用,这种举例方法初看是絮絮叨叨,言之过实而无法升华...
评分刚在当当买了这本书,我认为"引爆点"更加传神,我们不能把中文的意思又翻译回英文去对照翻译啊,因为每一次翻译均有信息的衰减(申农:<控制论>). 我们生活在一个网络的年代,几乎所有的事物都相互联系,一个事物如果不是一个节点,也会是一个联接。信息在各个节点之间通过联接进行...
评分过去读过一次,觉得还好而已。有一些不错的点子,不过毕竟这么老的书了。。。。看完后推荐Dan and Chip heath的switch和Made to stick,有更深层次的讨论和更详细的例子。 ============================================== 传播的媒介(人): super connect...
评分一种流行病的爆发需要三个条件,人们传播传染物的行为、传染物本身和传染物发挥作用需要的环境。一个流行潮的爆发,也起因于类似的三个条件,作者称之为个别人物法则、附着力因素、环境威力法则,其中任何一个条件的变化都可能引爆一场流行。 个别人物法则指出,一些特殊的人,...
看的英文,很不错!是好书
评分將近20年過去了,這套理論其實已經不太新鮮了。聽的是作者讀的audiobook,語調讓人昏昏欲睡⋯⋯
评分必读书目 可读性随章节次序迅速递增
评分看的英文,很不错!是好书
评分將近20年過去了,這套理論其實已經不太新鮮了。聽的是作者讀的audiobook,語調讓人昏昏欲睡⋯⋯
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