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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Attention Span
Gloria MarkAS 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...
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Directorate S
Steve CollWinner 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...
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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...
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Gang Leader for a Day
Sudhir VenkateshSudhir 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...
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Skin in the Game
Nassim Nicholas TalebFrom 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...
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When The Heavens Went On Sale
Ashlee VanceAn 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...
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The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas TalebThe 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 ...
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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...
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The Charisma Myth
Olivia Fox CabaneWhat 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. ...
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Poke the Box
Seth GodinPoke 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...
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill BrysonThe 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...
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The Magic of Thinking Big
David J. SchwartzMore 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...
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Número uno
Anders Ericsson & Robert PoolEl 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...
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Talking to Strangers
Malcolm GladwellMalcolm 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&...
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The Unthinkable
Amanda RipleyIt 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...
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Life Is Hard
Kieran SetiyaA 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...
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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...
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The Influential Mind
Tali SharotSelected 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...
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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...
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Caste
Isabel WilkersonTHE 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 ...
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Superforecasting
Philip Tetlock & Dan GardnerThe 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...
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The Eureka Factor
John Kounios & Mark BeemanWhere 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...
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The Uninhabitable Earth
David Wallace-WellsSUNDAY 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...
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The Comfort Crisis
Michael EasterDiscover 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...
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The Secret Life of the Grown-Up Brain
Barbara StrauchFor 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...
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Explaining Humans
Camilla PangWINNER 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...
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Give and Take
Adam GrantThe 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 ...
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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...
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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...
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Making Sense
Sam HarrisA 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...
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Nudge
Richard H. Thaler & Cass R SunsteinThe 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...
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Originals
Adam GrantWINNER 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’...
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How the World Really Works
Vaclav SmilTHE 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...
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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...
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Click
Rom BrafmanIn 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...
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Class
Jilly Cooper OBECLASS 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...
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The Art of Creative Thinking
Rod JudkinsA 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...
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Think Again
Adam GrantTHE 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...
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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...
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Rationality
Steven PinkerA 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...
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Happy City
Charles MontgomeryHappy 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...
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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...
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Pre-Suasion
Robert CialdiniWhen 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...
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Make No Small Plans
Elliott Bisnow, Brett Leve, Jeff Rosenthal & Jeremy SchwartzFrom 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...
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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...
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The Art of Thinking Clearly
Rolf Dobelli & Caroline WaightOVER 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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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The Power of Strangers
Joe KeohaneWhen 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...