El Punto Clave / The Tipping Point

from gkuhns

This book attempts to explain which factors work together to create fads, trends and epidemics in an increasingly global society. Although the work never evolves beyond a piece of facile pop sociology, it is most interesting for the way the author makes coherent links between seemingly disparate ...

from Karin7

Malcolm Gladwell examines the various factors involved in any trend reaching a tipping point, which is the point where they tip into being a trend on a larger scale. His first example is of the rise of the old-school, then unpopular Hush Puppy shoe which, during the 1990s made a huge comeback. In...

from Appliquetion

The very nature of modern culture is ruled by a point in time when a common trend sparks, grows and takes hold in society becoming a social norm. These norms are what dictate how society behaves. This point in time, called a "tipping point" is discussed in Malcom Gladwell's book, The Tipping Poin...

from steve_d27

A lot of what Tipping Point bridges you can do yourself and come up with the same answers: Sometimes things just 'tip' over and cause a reaction, good or bad. Some parts were interesting from an academic POV. A much hyped book about basics we all knew anyway, but branded really well. Good for mar...

from datrappert

Doesn't quite live up to its billing. Listening to Gladwell read his own book, I couldn't help but think that he had a lot of interesting stuff he wanted to tell us about, so he came up with the tipping point as the way to tie all the parts together. That's unfair of course, but some of the stori...