What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20 th century?
In the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has written three books that have radically changed how we understand our world and ourselves: The Tipping Point ; Blink ; and Outliers. Now, in What the Dog Saw , he brings together, for the first time, the best of his writing from The New Yorker over the same period.
Here is the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill, and the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz. Gladwell sits with Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen, as he sells rotisserie ovens, and divines the secrets of Cesar Millan, the "dog whisperer" who can calm savage animals with the touch of his hand. He explores intelligence tests and ethnic profiling and "hindsight bias" and why it was that everyone in Silicon Valley once tripped over themselves to hire the same college graduate.
"Good writing," Gladwell says in his preface, "does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head." What the Dog Saw is yet another example of the buoyant spirit and unflagging curiosity that have made Malcolm Gladwell our most brilliant investigator of the hidden extraordinary.
【加】馬爾科姆•格拉德威爾(Malcolm Gladwell)被《快公司》譽為“21世紀的彼得•德魯剋”,曾是《華盛頓郵報》商務科學專欄作傢,目前是《紐約客》雜誌專職作傢。2005年被《時代》周刊評為全球最有影響力的100位人物之一。他的代錶作品《引爆點》、《異類》、《眨眼之間》均創造瞭書市神話。《紐約時報》更是把格拉德威爾對社會思潮的影響稱為“格拉德威爾效應”(Gladwell Effect)。
馬爾科姆齣生於英格蘭,是牙買加人的後裔。他在加拿大長大,現居紐約市。
第八篇 Million-Dollar Murray 副题是:“为什么无家可归一类的问题解决容易、而管理起来难?” Gladwell在本文中说的一半纯属滥调。他把“八二原则”又举例说明了一通,不过他用的是统计学里的术语——(Power Law)“幂律”。题目中的“Murray”是个“死硬”的流浪汉,而叫...
評分四年后,也即是2007年,Gladwell就安然事件撰写的第二篇文章“The open secrect”(《公开的秘密》)发表。在转述此篇旧文之前,且耍个花枪,来看看新闻——美国SEC诉高盛案(SEC在一项民事诉讼中,起诉高盛公司误导、欺骗投资者)。 此间曲折,还数维基百科“高盛”词条说得...
評分卫报说,书中收有22篇文章,都可以在作者的个人网站上读到 格拉德威尔的著述带有哲学的性质:提出的是如何认识世界和认识人本身等基本问题,解决问题的方法是区分出不同的范畴。比如为什么有些大艺术家大器晚成而另外一些早早声名鹊起?这是因为艺术家有概念型和实验型两...
評分由于之前首次接触到纳西姆•塔勒布的书,于是我百度了一下塔勒布其人,一篇题为《暴富:纳西姆•塔勒布是怎样将不可避免的灾难转化为一种投资战略》的文章吸引了我。这篇文章写在《黑天鹅》一书出版的几年前,以1996年的某一天塔勒布拜访维克多•尼德霍夫开头。尼德霍夫...
評分看了这本书才知道原来欧莱雅的广告语原文是“worth it”,顿时觉得比“值得拥有”带劲儿多了;也是看了这本书才知道一句“worth it”已经有了三四十年的历史了。于是去搜化妆品广告来看,发现除了最早版本的“I'm worth it”和流传最广的“you're worth it”,最近又有了“we'r...
讀瞭1/3,沒讀完。
评分creeping determinism-in retrospect,that what has happened was actually inevitable 多數文章還是滿好玩的
评分Do you have to write if you don't feel like writing?
评分讀過《Tipping point》 和《Outlier》這兩本書的話,就不必再讀這本瞭。馬叔畢竟是從廣告行業發跡,寫作風格和主題可以概括為 “意料之外,情理之中”,總是很能吸引人眼球就是瞭。 整部書裏我個人認為值得一讀的隻有兩章:The Talent myth: are smart people overrated? 可以對麥肯锡選拔評價人纔的標準做少許瞭解。 The New boy network: what do job interview really tell us? 在海外讀書的同學們可以瞭解一下老外麵試的套路,即structured interview 的標準問題和一些標準答案。雖然我覺得發明這些問題的人真的是很反人性瞭。
评分很一般瞭 這種雜誌寫手 思路就跟公號一樣……
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