Malcolm Gladwell Libros Populares

Malcolm Gladwell Biografía y Hechos

Malcolm Gladwell (Fareham, 3 de septiembre de 1963) es un periodista, escritor y sociólogo canadiense. Biografía Es hijo de una psicóloga jamaicana y de un catedrático inglés de matemáticas. Aunque nació en Inglaterra en 1963, a los seis años (1969) se fue con su familia a Canadá, donde se crio. En la Universidad de Toronto se licenció en Historia (1984) y, tras ser rechazado en varias agencias de publicidad, empezó a ejercer el periodismo en una revista de Indiana, The American Spectator. De ahí pasó a The Washington Post (1987-1996), donde estuvo casi una década, primero en la sección de Ciencia y luego como jefe de la corresponsalía en Nueva York para negocios. Por entonces empezó a leer investigaciones académicas de sociología y psicología en busca de ideas para reportajes, algo que sustenta buena parte de su trabajo y suscita muchas polémicas en el sentido de que se inclina a resaltar las excepciones más documentadas a las reglas de la opinión general. En 1996 empezó a trabajar en The New Yorker. Pensamiento Uno de sus temas recurrentes es la desigualdad en relación con la educación y la sociología. En resumidas cuentas, sus ideas se reducen a que no siempre más dinero y selección equivale a mejor, y a que mucha gente valiosa permanece en puestos oscuros a causa del narcisismo de los demás y la obsesión por la juventud y por lo rápido, exigidas por los imperfectos sistemas de promoción, centrados en lo que llama el "mito del talento". A este contrapone él lo que llama "genio menor", formado por las personas que son muy buenas en lo que hacen pero no son necesariamente bien conocidas: los individualistas apasionados con un tema, los pioneros, y otras variedades. El tiempo y la experiencia aseguran mejor el éxito a largo plazo. Según Gladwell, la práctica no es algo que se hace una vez que se es bueno en algo, es lo que se hace para volverse bueno en cualquier campo; y el contexto de algunas personas permite que lleguen con los deberes hechos antes de que se los pidan. En sus libros de divulgación combina historias interesantes con investigaciones de sociología y filosofía igualmente atractivas y novedosas. Intenta explicar cómo, habiendo gente tan inteligente y ambiciosa o más que Bill Gates, no consigue valer sesenta mil millones de dólares, y postula que el éxito debe residir en otros factores.[1]​ Cree descubrirlos en los distintos tipos de entorno que rodean a figuras como éstas, de manera que los fueras de serie son construidos y mediatizados por su entorno, de la misma manera que las figuras que no lo son. Y, al igual que en la epidemiología, los fenómenos de éxito masivo se fundan en la conducta de tres clases de factores del entorno: los "enterados", los "conectores" o transmisores y los "vendedores natos", que desempeñan un papel decisivo en el de boca en boca. Tres características son fundamentales: La capacidad de contagio y focalización de los factores implicados. Que un conjunto de pequeñas causas provoca grandes y singulares efectos. Que el cambio no se produce de manera gradual, sino drásticamente a partir de un punto crítico (tipping point o "punto de inflexión") de no aumento: las epidemias empiezan y acaban bruscamente, y encuentran un cenit más allá del cual declinan en poco tiempo. Sin embargo, en la difusión viral Gladwell advierte una diferencia entre el modelo epidemiológico y el sociológico: el virus en medicina se puede atajar mediante prescripciones muy precisas, pero eso no ocurre en el caso de las epidemias sociales. Por demás, señala que el papel de la tecnología y de Internet en este tipo de difusión viral no es progresista y revolucionario en lo social, sino conservador.[2]​ En su quinto libro, David y Goliat (2013) examina la lucha de los oprimidos contra los favoritos.[3]​ Libros 2000: El punto clave (The Tipping Point) 2005: Blink. Inteligencia intuitiva (Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking) 2008: Fuera de serie. Por qué unas personas tienen éxito y otras no (Outliers: The Story of Success) 2009: Lo que el perro vio y otras aventuras (What the Dog Saw And Other Adventures) 2013: David y Goliat. Desvalidos, inadaptados y el arte de luchar contra gigantes (David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants) 2019: Hablar con extraños. Por qué es tan crucial (y tan difícil) leer las intenciones de los desconocidos (Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know) 2021: El Clan de los Bombarderos. Un sueño, una tentación y la noche más larga de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War) Podcast Gladwell es el anfitrión en el Pódcast Revisionist History, inicialmente producido por Panoply Media, y, a partir de 2018, en la propia red de podcasts de Gladwell, Pushkin Industries, que cofundó junto a Jacob Weisberg.[4]​ Cada episodio plantea un evento, o una persona de la historia, y luego cuestiona lo que es de público conocimiento sobre el mismo.[5]​   También es co-anfitrión de un podcast junto a Bruce Hedlam y Rick Rubin, llamado Broken Record, donde entrevista a personas de la industria musical.[6]​ Distinciones En 2007 recibió el primer premio de la Asociación Americana de Sociología a la Excelencia en la Comunicación de las cuestiones sociales y fue nombrado doctor honoris causa por la Universidad de Waterloo. En 2011 fue nombrado también doctor honoris causa por la Universidad de Toronto. En 2011 recibió la Orden de Canadá, el segundo máximo honor al mérito en el sistema de órdenes, condecoraciones y medallas de Canadá.[7]​ Notas Enlaces externos Página personal La desobediencia civil Artículo en "La Nación" Malcolm Gladwell sobre “Outliers”, en Pop!Tech. Descubre los libros populares de Malcolm Gladwell. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de Malcolm Gladwell

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Best Seller Malcolm Gladwell Libros de 2024

  • Attention Span sinopsis y comentarios

    Attention Span

    Gloria Mark

    AS SEEN ON ARMCHAIR EXPERT WITH DAX SHEPARD AND THE EZRA KLEIN SHOW, WALL STREET JOURNAL, NEW YORK TIMES AND MORE A "NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB" BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEARA COSM...

  • Directorate S sinopsis y comentarios

    Directorate S

    Steve Coll

    Winner of the the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonFiction'Spellbinding ... a magisterial account of the great tragedy of our age ... it is a classic' Evening Standard'In...

  • Are You Thinking Clearly? sinopsis y comentarios

    Are You Thinking Clearly?

    Matt Warren & Miriam Frankel

    'An endlessly fascinating tour of the many different factors influencing our decisionmaking and reasoning' David Robson, author of The Expectation Effect'An eyeopening and engaging...

  • Gang Leader for a Day sinopsis y comentarios

    Gang Leader for a Day

    Sudhir Venkatesh

    Sudhir Venkatesh the young sociologist who became famous in Freakonomics (Why do drug dealers still live with their moms?) describes his time living with the gangs on the Southside...

  • Skin in the Game sinopsis y comentarios

    Skin in the Game

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    From the bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold book that challenges many of our longheld beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsib...

  • When The Heavens Went On Sale sinopsis y comentarios

    When The Heavens Went On Sale

    Ashlee Vance

    An instant New York Times Bestseller'One of the most exciting tales of our time... It's the next tech frontier, and Vance turns it into a thriller' Walter Isaacson, author of Steve...

  • The Black Swan sinopsis y comentarios

    The Black Swan

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    The phenomenal international bestseller that shows us how to stop trying to predict everything and take advantage of uncertaintyWhat have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the ...

  • Messy sinopsis y comentarios

    Messy

    Tim Harford

    'Ranging expertly across business, politics and the arts, Tim Harford makes a compelling case for the creative benefits of disorganization, improvisation and confusion. His liberat...

  • The Charisma Myth sinopsis y comentarios

    The Charisma Myth

    Olivia Fox Cabane

    What if charisma could be taught? What you'll find here is practical magic: unique knowledge, drawn from a variety of sciences, revealing what charisma really is and how it works. ...

  • Poke the Box sinopsis y comentarios

    Poke the Box

    Seth Godin

    Poke the Box is Seth Godin's spirited call to action for anybody too afraid to try something new, now relaunched and repackagedIf you are happy being just a dreamer, perhaps you do...

  • A Short History of Nearly Everything sinopsis y comentarios

    A Short History of Nearly Everything

    Bill Bryson

    The ultimate eyeopening journey through time and space, A Short History of Nearly Everything is the biggestselling popular science book of the 21st century and has sold over 2 mill...

  • The Magic of Thinking Big sinopsis y comentarios

    The Magic of Thinking Big

    David J. Schwartz

    More than 6 million readers around the world have improved their lives by reading The Magic of Thinking Big. First published in 1959, David J Schwartz's classic teachings are as po...

  • Número uno sinopsis y comentarios

    Número uno

    Anders Ericsson & Robert Pool

    El mayor experto mundial en rendimiento y desarrollo de habilidades, Anders Ericsson, nos enseña los secretos para conseguir ser el mejor en lo que nos propongamos.«Este libro es e...

  • Talking to Strangers sinopsis y comentarios

    Talking to Strangers

    Malcolm Gladwell

    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&...

  • The Unthinkable sinopsis y comentarios

    The Unthinkable

    Amanda Ripley

    It was 8.46 a.m. on 9/11 when Elia Zedeño, who had worked in the World Trade Center for twentyone years, heard a booming explosion and felt the building lurch violently to the sout...

  • Life Is Hard sinopsis y comentarios

    Life Is Hard

    Kieran Setiya

    A NEW YORKER AND THE ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2022"Life Is Hard is a humane consolation for challenging times. Reading it is like speaking with a thoughtful friend who never tells yo...

  • How the Mind Works sinopsis y comentarios

    How the Mind Works

    Steven Pinker

    'Powerful and gripping... To have read it is to have consulted a first draft of the structural plan of the human psyche ... a glittering tour de force' Spectator Why do we la...

  • The Influential Mind sinopsis y comentarios

    The Influential Mind

    Tali Sharot

    Selected as a best book of 2017 by Forbes, The Times, Huffington Post, Bloomberg, Greater Good Magazine, Stanford Business School and more.'A timely, intriguing book' Adam Grant, N...

  • The Body sinopsis y comentarios

    The Body

    Bill Bryson

    #1 Bestseller in both hardback and paperback: SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 'A directory of wonders.' The Guardian'Jawdropping.' Th...

  • Caste sinopsis y comentarios

    Caste

    Isabel Wilkerson

    THE TIME NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR | #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Powerful and timely ... I cannot recommend it strongly enough" Barack ObamaBeyond race or class, our lives are ...

  • Superforecasting sinopsis y comentarios

    Superforecasting

    Philip Tetlock & Dan Gardner

    The international bestseller'A manual for thinking clearly in an uncertain world. Read it.' Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and SlowWhat if we could improve our ability t...

  • The Eureka Factor sinopsis y comentarios

    The Eureka Factor

    John Kounios & Mark Beeman

    Where do great ideas come from?What actually happens in your brain during a ‘Eureka’ moment?How can we have more of them?John Kounios and Mark Beeman, leading experts on the neural...

  • The Uninhabitable Earth sinopsis y comentarios

    The Uninhabitable Earth

    David Wallace-Wells

    SUNDAY TIMES AND THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'An epochdefining book' Matt Haig'If you read just one work of nonfiction this year, it should probably be this' David Sexton, Evening...

  • The Comfort Crisis sinopsis y comentarios

    The Comfort Crisis

    Michael Easter

    Discover the evolutionary mind and body benefits of living at the edges of your comfort zone and reconnecting with the wildfrom the New York Times bestselling author of Scarcity Br...

  • The Secret Life of the Grown-Up Brain sinopsis y comentarios

    The Secret Life of the Grown-Up Brain

    Barbara Strauch

    For many years, scientists thought that the human brain simply decayed over time and its dying cells led to memory slips, fuzzy logic, negative thinking, and even depression. But n...

  • Explaining Humans sinopsis y comentarios

    Explaining Humans

    Camilla Pang

    WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE, JULY 2020How proteins, machine learning and molecular chemistry can teach us about the complexities of human beha...

  • Give and Take sinopsis y comentarios

    Give and Take

    Adam Grant

    The New York Times bestseller'Brimming with lifechanging insights' Susan Cain, author of Quiet'Excellent' Financial TimesEverybody knows that hard work, luck and talent each plays ...

  • Hidden Potential sinopsis y comentarios

    Hidden Potential

    Adam Grant

    #1 New York Times bestseller "This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes to improve and succeed. I wish I could go back in time and gift it to my younger...

  • Emotions Revealed sinopsis y comentarios

    Emotions Revealed

    Paul Ekman

    'You'll never look at people in quite the same way again. EMOTIONS REVEALED is a tour de force' Malcolm Gladwell, bestselling author of BLINK'A fascinating and enormously helpful p...

  • Making Sense sinopsis y comentarios

    Making Sense

    Sam Harris

    A New York Times New and Noteworthy BookFrom the bestselling author of Waking Up and The End of Faith, an adaptation of his wildly popular, often controversial podca...

  • Nudge sinopsis y comentarios

    Nudge

    Richard H. Thaler & Cass R Sunstein

    The completely updated, final edition of the global bestseller one of the most influential books of the 21st century'Few books can be said to have changed the world, but Nudge did...

  • Originals sinopsis y comentarios

    Originals

    Adam Grant

    WINNER of the Chartered Management Institute's (CMI's) Mangement Book of the Year Awards 2017, JP Morgan's Best Summer Read 2018, and a #1 New York Times Bestseller!‘Extraordinary’...

  • How the World Really Works sinopsis y comentarios

    How the World Really Works

    Vaclav Smil

    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If you want a brief but thorough education in numeric thinking about many of the fundame...

  • Everybody Matters sinopsis y comentarios

    Everybody Matters

    Bob Chapman & Raj Sisodia

    'If you're ready for a new way of doing business, this is the book for you' Daniel H. Pink, author of To Sell Is Human and Drive 'Bob Chapman is on a mission to change the way busi...

  • Click sinopsis y comentarios

    Click

    Rom Brafman

    In a book that combines psychology and sociology with an insightful understanding of human interactions, Ori and Rom Brafman have written a compelling narrative that helps us to un...

  • Class sinopsis y comentarios

    Class

    Jilly Cooper OBE

    CLASS IS DEAD!Or so everyone claims. Who better to refute this than Jilly Cooper!Describing herself as 'upper middle class', Jilly claims that snobbery is very much alive and thriv...

  • The Art of Creative Thinking sinopsis y comentarios

    The Art of Creative Thinking

    Rod Judkins

    A scuba diving company faces bankruptcy because sharks have infested the area. Solution? Open the world's first extreme diving school.The Art of Creative Thinking reveals how we ca...

  • Think Again sinopsis y comentarios

    Think Again

    Adam Grant

    THE MILLIONCOPY BESTSELLERIf you can change your mind you can do anything.Why do we refresh our wardrobes every year, renovate our kitchens every decade, but never update our belie...

  • Mastering Uncertainty sinopsis y comentarios

    Mastering Uncertainty

    Matt Watkinson & Csaba Konkoly

    'Mandatory reading. Not just for company founders and leaders, but for anyone wanting to succeed in our everchanging world.' Keith FerrazziWhat separates the world's most successfu...

  • Rationality sinopsis y comentarios

    Rationality

    Steven Pinker

    A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 'Punchy, funny and invigorating ... Pinker is the high priest of rationalism' Sunday Times 'If you've ever considered taking drugs to make yourself s...

  • Happy City sinopsis y comentarios

    Happy City

    Charles Montgomery

    Happy City is the story of how the solutions to this century's problems from climate change to overpopulation lie in unlocking the secrets to great city living This is going to b...

  • Fooled by Randomness sinopsis y comentarios

    Fooled by Randomness

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    'One of the smartest books of all time' Fortune'The hottest thinker in the world' Sunday TimesEveryone wants to succeed in life. But what causes some of us to be more successful t...

  • Pre-Suasion sinopsis y comentarios

    Pre-Suasion

    Robert Cialdini

    When it comes to persuasion, success can begin before you say a word.‘An instant classic.’ Forbes‘Utterly fascinating.’ Adam Grant, author of Originals and Give and Take‘Shockingly...

  • Make No Small Plans sinopsis y comentarios

    Make No Small Plans

    Elliott Bisnow, Brett Leve, Jeff Rosenthal & Jeremy Schwartz

    From the founders of the acclaimed Summit event series and community comes the story of their unconventional journey to business success and the hard lessons they learned along the...

  • Emotional sinopsis y comentarios

    Emotional

    Leonard Mlodinow

    'Both a brilliant scholar and a great writer, Leonard Mlodinow guides us through the fascinating science of what we feel, and why and what we can do about it. I learned a lot from...

  • The Art of Thinking Clearly sinopsis y comentarios

    The Art of Thinking Clearly

    Rolf Dobelli & Caroline Waight

    OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLDThis book will change the way you think about decisionmaking. If you want to lead a happier, more prosperous life, you don't need shiny gadgets, complicat...

  • Antifragile sinopsis y comentarios

    Antifragile

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    'Really made me think about how I think' Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit WestTough times don't last. Tough people do. In The Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and un...

  • Business Adventures sinopsis y comentarios

    Business Adventures

    John Brooks

    'The best business book I've ever read.' Bill Gates, Wall Street Journal'The Michael Lewis of his day.' New York TimesWhat do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as ...

  • Rebel Ideas sinopsis y comentarios

    Rebel Ideas

    Matthew Syed & Matthew Syed Consulting Ltd

    'I like listening to people who know things that I don't,' Gareth Southgate told me. 'That's how you learn.' Former Olympian and bestselling author Matthew Syed is one of the advis...

  • The Power of Strangers sinopsis y comentarios

    The Power of Strangers

    Joe Keohane

    When was the last time you spoke to a stranger?In our cities, we barely acknowledge one another on public transport, even as rates of loneliness skyrocket. Online, we carefully cur...