The Tipping Point

Malcolm Gladwell is a former business and science writer at the Washington Post. He is currently a staff writer for The New Yorker. This is his first book.

出版者:Little, Brown Adult

作者:[加拿大] 马尔科姆·格拉德威尔

页数:1

出版时间:2005-01-01

价格:USD 23.98

装帧:Audio CD

isbn号码:9781586217457

图书标签:心理学思维MalcolmGladwellthinkingEnglish社会学商业bestseller

The Tipping Point is that magical moment when an idea, trend, or social behaviour crosses a threshhold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a sick individual in a crowded store can start can epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend or the popularity of a new restaurant to take off overnightor crime or drug use to taper off. Gladwell has explored this theory to great acclaim in several articles in The New Yorker. Here, he shows how very minor adjustments in products and ideas can make them more likely to become hugely popular. He reveals how east it is to cause group behaviour to tip in a desirable direction by making small changes in our immediate environment. The Tipping Point contains a profoundly hopeful idea that people will embrace for its sense and simplicity: one imaginative person, applying a well-placed lever, can move the world. Examples are recognizable: in the New York subways, removing graffiti caused a dramatic reduction in crime; a specific hip group of teenagers wore Hush Puppies and suddenly sparked a national craze. This is a book that should be read by everyone in business, politics, marketing, advertising, and anyone interested in trends, fashion, fads, policy making, and human behaviour. In other words, all of us.

读后感

理论论叙太多，看不到亮点。 本书只能做为已发生的现象分析，没有从中学到，到底要做什么事才有可能会引爆流行。 中文译本翻译错误还是有蛮多。 个人觉得本书如果叫《群体效应》可能会更贴主题。  

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对于这本书，可以肯定在西方社会流行程度会超过中国，西人擅长理学，逻辑实证精神一直备受推崇，所谓知其然更知其所以然，而东方思维大抵反之，之前看了较多日本设计大家的经典，也当是换个口味。 确实，书里的例子重复引用，这种举例方法初看是絮絮叨叨，言之过实而无法升华...  

用户评价

the strength of weak ties. mavens. social networks. communication styles. 写得实在太罗嗦了！

Did I miss something? 这本书远没有它的reputation好

好不容易“读”完了！有点意思！

Not as good as Outliers or Blink

listened as audiobook, not quite enlightening.