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Outliers: the story of success

By: Publication details: London Penguin Books 2008 Description: ix, 309 pISBN:
  • 9780141036243
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 650.1
Summary: In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of outliers--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band. - Source: http://search.barnesandnoble.com
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Books Vikram Sarabhai Library Rack 34-B / Slot 1801 (2nd Floor, East Wing) General Stacks 650.1 G5O8 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available PM & TP - 14/10/2016 166978

Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-296) and index

In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of outliers--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band. - Source: http://search.barnesandnoble.com

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