Malcom Gladwell Książki

Talent to za mało, żeby odnieść sukces? O tym, czego jeszcze potrzeba, dowiesz się z tej książki. Co decyduje o karierze najlepszych piłkarzy świata? Dlaczego tylko 20% najzdolniejszych uczniów odnosi sukces? Malcolm Gladwell analizuje ludzi sukcesu, poszukując odpowiedzi na pytanie, czym różnią się od innych. Dlaczego The Beatles są najsłynniejszym zespołem, a Bill Gates multimilionerem? Przygląda się ich rodzinom, kulturze, miejscu pochodzenia oraz dzieciństwu, odkrywając źródła ich sukcesów i mechanizmy, które mogą pomóc każdemu w osiągnięciu celu. Ta przełomowa książka ujawnia, co jest niezbędne do prawdziwego sukcesu. Gladwell, autor pięciu bestsellerów z listy „New York Timesa”, jest uznawany za jednego z 100 najbardziej wpływowych ludzi przez „Time” oraz za jednego z najważniejszych intelektualistów przez „Foreign Policy”. Znajduje się również na liście Thinkers50, poświęconej myślicielom zajmującym się zarządzaniem. Jego błyskotliwe książki odsłaniają ukryte mechanizmy funkcjonowania świata i nas samych. Znak Literanova poleca nowe wydanie trzech przełomowych książek Malcolma Gladwella: Punkt przełomowy, Błysk! i Poza schematem.

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 20th 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 you'll find the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill, and the dazzling creations of 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 why it was that employers in Silicon Valley once tripped over themselves to hire the same college graduate.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The wildly opinionated, thoroughly entertaining, and arguably definitive book on the past, present, and future of the NBA—from the founder of The Ringer and host of The Bill Simmons Podcast “Enough provocative arguments to fuel barstool arguments far into the future.”—The Wall Street Journal In The Book of Basketball, Bill Simmons opens—and then closes, once and for all—every major NBA debate, from the age-old question of who actually won the rivalry between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain to the one about which team was truly the best of all time. Then he takes it further by completely reevaluating not only how NBA Hall of Fame inductees should be chosen but how the institution must be reshaped from the ground up, the result being the Pyramid: Simmons’s one-of-a-kind five-level shrine to the ninety-six greatest players in the history of pro basketball. And ultimately he takes fans to the heart of it all, as he uses a conversation with one NBA great to uncover that coveted thing: The Secret of Basketball. Comprehensive, authoritative, controversial, hilarious, and impossible to put down (even for Celtic-haters), The Book of Basketball offers every hardwood fan a courtside seat beside the game’s finest, funniest, and fiercest chronicler.

The New Yorker has been at the forefront of social commentary since it was first published in 1925. Even when the markets have been down, its famous single-panel cartoons have found a way to add humor to the economic landscape.In On the Money , fans can revel in over 350 of The New Yorker 's best cartoons on the theme of money, culled from the past 80+ years. From bossy businessmen to crooked creditors to slighted stockholders, no one in the financial world has escaped humorously critical jabs from the master of cartoon humor. The collection is edited by The New Yorker 's cartoon editor, Robert Mankoff, and includes an introduction by the best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell.

"Why is Miami--Miami? What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children? Why do Ivy League schools care so much about sports? What is the Magic Third, and what does it mean for racial harmony? In this ... work, Malcolm Gladwell returns for the first time in twenty-five years to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points, this time with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious phenomena. Through a series of ... stories, Gladwell traces the rise of a new and troubling form of social engineering"--

The Tipping Point is the biography of an idea, and the idea is quite simple: that many of the problems we face - from murder to teenage delinquency to traffic jams - behave like epidemics. They aren't linear phenomena in the sense that they steadily and predictably change according to the level of effort brought to bear against them. They are capable of sudden and dramatic changes in direction. Years of well-intentioned intervention may have no impact at all, yet the right intervention - at just the right time - can start a cascade of change.

Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. This "Bomber Mafia" asked: What if precision bombing could, just by taking out critical choke points - industrial or transportation hubs - cripple the enemy and make war far less lethal? In The Bomber Mafia, Gladwell delves deep into questions of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war.

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers--and why they often go wrong . How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland---throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don't know. And because we don't know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller, David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.

Psychology and the Real World: Essays Illustrating Fundamental Contributions to Society is a collection of brief, personal, original essays, ranging in length from 2500 to 3500 words, in which leading academic psychologists describe what their area of research has contributed to society. The authors are true stars in the field of psychology. Some of their work (for example, Elizabeth Loftus’s studies of false memories, Paul Ekman’s research on facial expression, and Eliot Aronson’s “jigsaw,” or cooperative, classroom studies) is well known to the public. The research of others is less familiar to nonspecialists, but no less fascinating. The book is unique the world of textbook ancillaries in that it does not reprint writings. Rather, innovative psychological scientists clearly and entertainingly tell readers why their research matters and how their line of inquiry developed. The concept for the book came from the FABBS Foundation, a nonprofit educational foundation that supports the work of 22 scholarly societies that span the cognitive, psychological, behavioral, and brain sciences.The authors have volunteered their contributions. These authors have agreed that all grants, advances, and royalties and other financial earnings from this volume will go to the FABBS Foundation to support their educational mission.

Intuition is not some magical property that arises unbidden from the depths of our mind. It is a product of long hours and intelligent design, of meaningful work environments and particular rules and principles. This book shows us how we can hone our instinctive ability to know in an instant, helping us to bring out the best in our thinking and become better decision-makers in our homes, offices and in everyday life. Just as he did with his revolutionary theory of the tipping point, Gladwell 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.You’ll never think about thinking in the same way again.

Why do underdogs succeed so much more than they should? How do the weak outsmart the strong? In David and GoliathMalcolm Gladwell takes us on a scintillating and surprising journey to uncover the hidden dynamics that shape the balance of power between the small and the mighty. From the conflict in Northern Ireland and Vietnam, through the tactics of civil rights leaders and the problem of privilege, Gladwell demonstrates how terribly we misunderstand the true meaning of advantage and disadvantage. When is a traumatic childhood a good thing? How can a disability leave someone better off? And do you really want your child to go to the best school he or she can get into? Drawing on the stories of remarkable underdogs, history, science, psychology and his unparalleled ability to make the connections other miss, David and Goliathis a brilliant, illuminating book that overturns conventional thinking, and brings home the incredible leverage of the unexpected.

The book that sparked a marketing revolution."This is a subversive book. It says that the marketer is not--and ought not to be--at the center of successful marketing. The customer should be. Are you ready for that?" --From the Foreword by Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point.Counter to traditional marketing wisdom, which tries to count, measure, and manipulate the spread of information, Seth Godin argues that the information can spread most effectively from customer to customer, rather than from business to customer. Godin calls this powerful customer-to-customer dialogue the ideavirus, and cheerfully eggs marketers on to create an environment where their ideas can replicate and spread.In lively detail, Godin looks at the ways companies such as PayPal, Hotmail, GeoCities, even Volkswagen have successfully launched ideaviruses. He offers a "recipe" for creating your own ideavirus, identifies the key factors in the successful spread of an ideavirus (powerful sneezers, hives, a clear vector, a smooth, friction-free transmission), and shows how any business, large or small, can use ideavirus marketing to succeed in a world that just doesn't want to hear it anymore from the traditional marketers.

From the former editor of Slate and CEO of Atlas Obscura comes the unbelievable story of “the Nobel Prize sperm bank” and the children it produced—“a superb book about the quest for genius and, ultimately, family” (Malcolm Gladwell). NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS. The Repository for Germinal Choice, known as “the Nobel Prize sperm bank,” opened in 1980 and attracted women nationwide seeking donors from a roster of Nobel laureates, mathematical prodigies, and successful figures. However, it closed in 1999, leaving its founder deceased, records sealed, and the fate of its offspring and donors uncertain. Award-winning columnist David Plotz embarks on a journey across the country, uncovering the astonishing story of the sperm bank and its founder’s radical vision. Praise for the work includes remarks on its wit, pathos, and insight, noting Plotz’s multifaceted role as narrator, ethnographer, and social critic. Critics highlight its engaging narrative, describing it as blithe, smart, and filled with unexpected emotional depth. The work is characterized as not only curious but also useful, with a blend of tension, humor, and touching moments, making it both readable and eye-opening.

"Progress. It is one of the animating concepts of the modern era. From the Enlightenment onwards, the West has had an enduring belief that through the evolution of institutions, innovations, and ideas, the human condition is improving. This process is supposedly accelerating as new technologies, individual freedoms, and the spread of global norms empower individuals and societies around the world. But is progress inevitable? Its critics argue that human civilization has become different, not better, over the last two and a half centuries. What is seen as a breakthrough or innovation in one period becomes a setback or limitation in another. In short, progress is an ideology not a fact; a way of thinking about the world as opposed to a description of reality. In the seventeenth semi-annual Munk Debates, which was held in Toronto on November 6, 2015, pioneering cognitive scientist Steven Pinker and best-selling author Matt Ridley squared off against noted philosopher Alain de Botton and best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell to debate whether humankind's best days lie ahead, "--Amazon.com.

Jak myslet bez přemýšlení. Mžik je o jednom prostém faktu: Velmi rychlá a leckdy zdánlivě neuvážená rozhodnutí mohou být stejně dobrá jako rozhodnutí opatrná a rozvážná. Není totiž důležité mít co nejvíce informací, ale vybrat si ty podstatné. Schopnost mít jasno již v prvních dvou sekundách nebývá podle autora knihy Malcolma Gladwella žádným darem shůry, kterým disponuje pár šťastlivců. Je to schopnost, kterou v sobě může vypěstovat každý z nás. Čtenáři velmi oblíbený americký novinář v knize podrobně zkoumá momenty našeho instinktivního rozhodování a popisuje, co se děje v mozku, když se musíme rychle rozhodnout, ale nemáme čas přemýšlet. Rychlá rozhodnutí autor demonstruje na skutečných příbězích někdy i se špatným koncem. Ten mívají obvykle na svědomí rozhodnutí učiněná na základě předsudků či zavedených stereotypů.

Jak myslet bez přemýšlení Zdánlivě nevědomou schopnost bleskového rozhodnutí lze kultivovat a může se jí naučit každý. Na příkladech ze života lidí různých profesí autor čtivou formou ukazuje sílu i úskalí instinktivních rozhodnutí a přibližuje složité myšlenkové procesy, které za nimi stojí. Opírá se přitom o experimenty a výzkumy, které dokládají, jak pracuje ta část mozku, nazývaná adaptivní nevědomí. Studium těchto procesů je novým oborem psychologie. Mžikem, tedy v prvních dvou vteřinách učiněné rozhodnutí, je v nevědomí dokončeno dlouho před tím, než si ho připustíme vědomě. Přitom může být stejně dobré jako rozhodnutí učiněné opatrně a rozvážně. Chceme-li být při rozhodování úspěšní, musíme škrtat, vyloučit méně důležité informace a znát své vlastní myšlení.

Co se děje v našem mozku, když se musíme rychle rozhodnout a nemáme čas přemýšlet? Jak je možné, že znalec umění rozpozná na první pohled padělek, který neodhalily komplikované testy? Jak se stane, že vycvičení policisté zabijí v přestřelce nevinného člověka, protože ho považovali za zločince? Můžeme se spoléhat na stereotypy, anebo nás zradí? Momenty našeho instinktivního rozhodování zkoumá ve své nejnovější knize Mžik americký novinář Malcolm Gladwell. Ukazuje, že není důležité mít co nejvíce informací, ale vybrat si ty podstatné.

Ein Kunstexperte sieht eine 10 Millionen Dollar teure Skulptur und erkennt sofort, dass sie eine Fälschung ist. Ein Psychologe weiß innerhalb von Minuten, ob ein Paar zusammenbleiben wird. Ein Feuerwehrmann in einem brennenden Gebäude »spürt« plötzlich, dass er sofort raus muss. In diesem Buch geht es um diese Momente, in denen wir etwas »wissen«, ohne zu wissen, warum. Der Bestsellerautor Malcolm Gladwell erforscht das Phänomen dieser »Blink«-Momente und zeigt, dass ein schnelles Urteil oft weitaus effektiver sein kann als eine vorsichtige Entscheidung. Wenn Sie Ihrem Instinkt vertrauen, so zeigt er, werden Sie nie wieder auf dieselbe Art und Weise denken. Denn wie wir denken, ohne zu denken, erklärt, warum manche Menschen brillante Entscheider sind, während andere nahezu immer danebenliegen. »Blink« veranschaulicht, dass die besten Entscheider nicht diejenigen sind, die am meisten Informationen verarbeiten oder die längste Zeit mit Überlegungen verbringen, sondern diejenigen, welche die Kunst des »thin-slicing« perfektioniert haben – das Herausfiltern der wenigen Faktoren, die wirklich wichtig sind, aus einer überwältigenden Anzahl von Variablen.

Malcolm Gladwell ve své nejnovější knize zpochybňuje naše obvyklé vnímání toho, co je překážka a co naopak nevýhoda. Zároveň nabízí novou interpretaci faktů, co pro člověka znamená trpět dyslexií, chodit do prestižní školy, přijít v dětství o rodiče nebo čelit diskriminaci.Vychází z biblické legendy o Davidu a Goliášovi a zavede nás znovu na bitevní pole ve staré Palestině. Také ale na příbězích z nedávné doby ukazuje, jak mohou obyčejní lidé čelit Goliášům nejrůznějšího druhu.

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