I'm fascinated with books that deal with the social psychological conscious like Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers/Blink/Tipping Point or Stephen Dubner/Steven Levitt's Freakonomics. I'd love to read more books in the same vein. Any choice authors or books I should check out?...

Last fall, when I started learning about deliberate practice,  I wanted to read Outliers. I wanted to read Talent is Overrated. I went to Borders, armed with a coupon to buy one of them. I looked first for Outliers, having heard more about Malcolm Gladwell than Geoff Colvin. If I was going to read ...

I’ve always had a sneaking suspicion that as important as hard work, good planning, etc., are, there was something else at work in my life. Something outside of my control and I wanted to know what it was. I finally decided it was luck—definitely outside my control. I wrote recently abut how...

I have to hand it to Chris Matyszczyk.  His CNET review of Malcolm Gladwell’s already historical and world-famous book, Outliers, is a real snark-fest and quite a jolly little thing.  Here’s an excerpt of Malcolm Gladwell’s story of failure: It is a fine book that takes you many fewer than 1...

I finally got the chance to finish Malcolm Gladwells book 'Outliers' from 2008. I must admit that I didn't read hi's other books 'Blink' and 'Tipping Point', but I knew about him and my expectations was quit high. And I really did enjoy Outliers. The theories in the book are easy understanable and m...

A post at the Canadian Developer Connection blog last week caught my eye. Joey deVilla posted about something he had read at the Harvard Business blog related to interview questions. In both posts you learn about Captain Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot who safely made an emergency landing in the Hud...

It was business building 101 this morning at OCRI’s monthly Technology Executive Breakfast, with three executives representing different stages of a company’s growth offering pearls of wisdom and insights learned at the School of Hard Knocks. Mark Edwards, president of Bent 360: MediaLab...

I ran across this hugely successful chart on Dean Foster's home page (and noted that he and his Wharton colleagues have a nice blog picking apart statistical errors committed in public.) This is a histogram plotting the historical year-on-year returns of the S&P 500 index, binned into 10%-le...

While on retreat with my family in Maui, one of the books I am reading is a book by Malcolm Caldwell, author of the book OUTLIERS, and before that the landmark book (which everyone should read) THE TIPPING POINT. In the book Gladwell made a point which struck me like a ton of books, as it relates di...

“The best way to predict the future is to create it� -Peter Drucker In Outliers, the outstanding Gladwell book about how we get successful, there is a terrific section towards the end on societies who take more time with their work; they “have to care� about what they do or they will fail. W...