I just finished reading Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell*. The book took me slightly over a week to finish but left me thinking about the components of success, the future developments in the world and also about life in general.
In general I always reflect on life in general as I read books and place them into context for me - but I've found that Gladwell has a knack for extending the thought process further than you would usually.
This book looks at some instances where statistical outliers appear, using a variety of examples from the stellar success such as the Bill Gates to catastrophic failures in Korean Air Airline Safety in the late 1990s. It then analyses and traces each outlier to an underlying, explainable by a series of plain, simple events and co-incidences. The book later also covers off the idea of competitive advantage in cultures and good luck in the equation.
Part history, part psychology, part success it's a must-read. You'll be sure to have learnt something applicable to business and everyday life from it. You should read at least one of the trilogy below.
Ideaman
*Malcolm Gladwell, writer and columnist for the New York Times has been pretty famous since his first book in 2002 titled the Tipping Point followed by a Sequel titled Blink in 2007. The books were an international best seller and very thought provoking.
P.S. To those non-savvy readers
I get all my books from Amazon second hand dealers in the US. In fact the last purchase I did was for all my MBA texts I ended up finding some used books in great condition selling for half the retail price! The only downer is shipping costs - but if you've got a larger order it's usually ok.
Just be careful that the order is from the same location or separate shipping applies.
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