Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Comments on The Tipping Point
Gladwell highlights several historic moments in time in the book The Tipping Point; from epidemics to famous advertisement campaigns. He claims that three rules "1) the law of the few; 2) the stickiness factor and 3) the power of context" may provide a way to understand how crime, bestselling books, fads and state-of-the-art technology, for examples, shape the world that we live in.
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Sunset on the Hill
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ReplyDeleteWelcome to the blogosphere (or blogoteria)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the lovely comments. Now I must go to yours!
ReplyDeleteWithout looking at history, we tend to make the same mistakes over and over (can't remember who originally said that). Thanks for bringing that to our attention!
ReplyDeleteMo from Amo
I agree with Amy, but some of us are not content to repeat the same mistakes over and over. Some folks need to 'reinvent' history, support their positions. The new revisionist histories are one of my pet peeves.
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