Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Gladwell, Malcolm

ISBN 10: 0316172324 / ISBN 13: 9780316172325

Edité par Little, Brown and Company, NY, 2005

A propos de cet article

Gift quality copy, textblock clean and tight; Minimally shelf worn. Unclipped dust jacket, minimally worn; 277p., including index. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

N° de réf. du vendeur SB16789

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
• Éditeur: Little, Brown and Company, NY
• Date de parution: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0316172324
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780316172325
• Reliure: Cloth Spine
• Édition: 5th Printing.
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine (in mylar)
• Type de livre: Hardcover
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Psychology & Psychiatry

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Synopsis

From the #1 bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia, the landmark book that has revolutionized the way we understand leadership and decision making.

 

In his breakthrough bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within.

 

Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant--in the blink of an eye--that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into error? How do our brains really work--in the office, in the classroom, in the kitchen, and in the bedroom? And why are the best decisions often those that are impossible to explain to others?

 

In Blink we meet the psychologist who has learned to predict whether a marriage will last, based on a few minutes of observing a couple; the tennis coach who knows when a player will double-fault before the racket even makes contact with the ball; the antiquities experts who recognize a fake at a glance. Here, too, are great failures of "blink": the election of Warren Harding; "New Coke"; and the shooting of Amadou Diallo by police.

 

Blink reveals that great decision makers aren't those who process the most information or spend the most time deliberating, but those who have perfected the art of "thin-slicing"--filtering the very few factors that matter from an overwhelming number of variables.

À propos de l?auteur

Malcolm Gladwell is the author of five New York Times bestsellers: The Tipping Point,Blink, Outliers,What the Dog Saw, and David and Goliath. He is also the co-founder of Pushkin Industries, an audio content company that produces the podcasts Revisionist History, which reconsiders things both overlooked and misunderstood, and Broken Record, where he, Rick Rubin, and Bruce Headlam interview musicians across a wide range of genres. Gladwell has been included in the Time 100 Most Influential People list and touted as one of Foreign Policy'sTop Global Thinkers.