Malcolm Gladwell is a former business and science writer at the Washington Post. He is currently a staff writer for The New Yorker.
"The best way to understand the dramatic transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life," writes Malcolm Gladwell, "is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do." Although anyone familiar with the theory of memetics will recognize this concept, Gladwell's The Tipping Point has quite a few interesting twists on the subject.
For example, Paul Revere was able to galvanize the forces of resistance so effectively in part because he was what Gladwell calls a "Connector": he knew just about everybody, particularly the revolutionary leaders in each of the towns that he rode through. But Revere "wasn't just the man with the biggest Rolodex in colonial Boston," he was also a "Maven" who gathered extensive information about the British. He knew what was going on and he knew exactly whom to tell. The phenomenon continues to this day--think of how often you've received information in an e-mail message that had been forwarded at least half a dozen times before reaching you.
Gladwell develops these and other concepts (such as the "stickiness" of ideas or the effect of population size on information dispersal) through simple, clear explanations and entertainingly illustrative anecdotes, such as comparing the pedagogical methods of Sesame Street and Blue's Clues, or explaining why it would be even easier to play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon with the actor Rod Steiger. Although some readers may find the transitional passages between chapters hold their hands a little too tightly, and Gladwell's closing invocation of the possibilities of social engineering sketchy, even chilling, The Tipping Point is one of the most effective books on science for a general audience in ages. It seems inevitable that "tipping point," like "future shock" or "chaos theory," will soon become one of those ideas that everybody knows--or at least knows by name. --Ron Hogan, Amazon.com
最近韩国的都教授和长腿哥让国内的女粉丝尖叫不已,也让国内的汉子们相当的不服气!咱腿也不短脸也不黑,为啥让俩韩国棒子在咱地盘肆虐捕获无数妹子呢?今天我们就来讨论一下流行的现象,是什么导致事物流行? 其实流行的概念大到时尚、文化传媒和商业界,小到圈子里...
评分 评分春节期间,花了点时间读了这本书。中信出版社出版的,可能是翻译上的问题吧,觉得有些地方不是很通顺,但是不影响对主题的理解。 老外就是有科学的研究精神,很常见的流行事件,能用科学的思维方式去加以概括,并指引人去解释生活中的流行事件,进而去引发、创造流行事件。 ...
评分《引爆流行》中的“个别人物法则”、“附着力因素法则”、“环境威力法则”很好地解释了流行潮发生的原因。 我尝试着用这三个法则分析了一下“超女”的流行: 个别人物法则:通过组织“超女”们的fans,使“超女”成为联系员。 附着力因素法则(事物传递的信息):用PK、女...
评分最近韩国的都教授和长腿哥让国内的女粉丝尖叫不已,也让国内的汉子们相当的不服气!咱腿也不短脸也不黑,为啥让俩韩国棒子在咱地盘肆虐捕获无数妹子呢?今天我们就来讨论一下流行的现象,是什么导致事物流行? 其实流行的概念大到时尚、文化传媒和商业界,小到圈子里...
没有Outliers好,有些例子比较牵强,观点的清晰度也弱一些。
评分看了一半
评分基本上当成心理学读物会比较好玩…
评分十多年前的商务销售理论指南,其中一些原理还是有用的,但不得不说今日网络的飞速发展已经带来了巨大的不同和挑战。
评分前面很赞,后面有点鸡肋
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