The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Gladwell, Malcolm

ISBN 10: 0316648523 / ISBN 13: 9780316648523

Edité par Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Co, 2000

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Synopsis :

"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. Many of the social ills that face us today, in other words, are as inherently volatile as the epidemics that periodically sweep through the human population: little things can cause them to "tip" at any time and if we want to understand how to confront and solve them we have to understand what those "tipping points" are. In this study, Malcolm Gladwell explores the ramifications of this. Not simply for politicians and policy-makers, his method provides a way of viewing everyday experience and seeking to enable us to develop strategies for everything from raising a child to running a company.

À propos de l?auteur: Malcolm Gladwell is a writer for the NEW YORKER magazine, among others. This is his first book.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can ...
Éditeur : Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Co
Date d'édition : 2000
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat : Very Good