9780316679077 The Tipping Point.

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make

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Big Difference

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作者: Malcolm Gladwell 
出版社: Hachette Book Group USA
副标题: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
出版年: (咨询特价)
页数: 280
装帧: Paperback
ISBN: (咨询特价)

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Book Description

This celebrated New York Times bestsellernow poised to reach an even wider audience in paperbackis a book that is changing the way North Americans think about selling products and disseminating ideas. Gladwells new afterword to this edition describes how readers can constructively apply the tipping point principle in their own lives and work. Widely hailed as an important work that offers not only a road map to business success but also a profoundly encouraging approach to solving social problems.

Amazon.com

"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

From Publishers Weekly

The premise of this facile piece of pop sociology has built-in appeal: little changes can have big effects; when small numbers of people start behaving differently, that behavior can ripple outward until a critical mass or "tipping point" is reached, changing the world. Gladwell's thesis that ideas, products, messages and behaviors "spread just like viruses do" remains a metaphor as he follows the growth of "word-of-mouth epidemics" triggered with the help of three pivotal types. These are Connectors, sociable personalities who bring people together; Mavens, who like to pass along knowledge; and Salesmen, adept at persuading the unenlightened. (Paul Revere, for example, was a Maven and a Connector). Gladwell's applications of his "tipping point" concept to current phenomena--such as the drop in violent crime in New York, the rebirth of Hush Puppies suede shoes as a suburban mall favorite, teenage suicide patterns and the efficiency of small work units--may arouse controversy. For example, many parents may be alarmed at his advice on drugs: since teenagers' experimentation with drugs, including cocaine, seldom leads to hardcore use, he contends, "We have to stop fighting this kind of experimentation. We have to accept it and even embrace it." While it offers a smorgasbord of intriguing snippets summarizing research on topics such as conversational patterns, infants' crib talk, judging other people's character, cheating habits in schoolchildren, memory sharing among families or couples, and the dehumanizing effects of prisons, this volume betrays its roots as a series of articles for the New Yorker, where Gladwell is a staff writer: his trendy material feels bloated and insubstantial in book form. Agent, Tina Bennett of Janklow & Nesbit. Major ad/promo. (Mar.)

From Library Journal

This genial book by New Yorker contributor Gladwell considers the elements needed to make a particular idea take hold. The "tipping point" (not a new phrase) occurs when something that began small (e.g., a few funky kids in New York's East Village wearing Hush Puppies) turns into something very large indeed (millions of Hush Puppies are sold). It depends on three rules: the Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor, and the Power of Context. Episodes subjected to this paradigm here include Paul Revere's ride, the creation of the children's TV program Sesame Street, and the influence of subway shooter Bernie Goetz. The book has something of a pieced-together feel (reflecting, perhaps, the author's experience writing shorter pieces) and is definitely not the stuff of deep sociological thought. It is, however, an entertaining read that promises to be well publicized. Recommended for public libraries.

-Ellen Gilbert, Rutgers Univ. Lib., New Brunswick, NJ

From Booklist

Gladwell, a New Yorker staff writer, offers an incisive and piquant theory of social dynamics that is bound to provoke a paradigm shift in our understanding of mass behavioral change. Defining such dramatic turnarounds as the abrupt drop in crime on New York's subways, or the unexpected popularity of a novel, as epidemics, Gladwell searches for catalysts that precipitate the "tipping point," or critical mass, that generates those events. What he finds, after analyzing a number of fascinating psychological studies, is that tipping points are attributable to minor alterations in the environment, such as the eradication of graffiti, and the actions of a surprisingly small number of people, who fit the profiles of personality types that he terms connectors, mavens, and salesmen. As he applies his strikingly counterintuitive hypotheses to everything from the "stickiness," or popularity, of certain children's television shows to the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, Gladwell reveals that our cherished belief in the autonomy of the self is based in great part on wishful thinking.

Donna Seaman

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我们的世界看上去很坚固，但在《纽约客》怪才格拉德威尔的眼里，只要你找到那个点，轻轻一触，这个世界就会动起来：一位满意而归的顾客能让新开张的餐馆座无虚席，一位涂鸦爱好者能在地铁掀起犯罪浪潮，一位精明小伙传递的信息拉开了美国独立战争的序幕——这个看起来不起眼的点，却是任何人都不能忽视的引点。

《引点》是一本谈论怎样让产品发起流行潮的专门性著作。书中将产品发流行的现象归因为三种模屎个别人物法则、附着力因素及环境威力法则。个别人物法则是圈层营销或者说窄众营销的理论基础。作者在书中详细地指导了我们如何去寻找目标客户中的传播员、内行与推销员——那些有着非凡人际能力的人们。附着力因素解决的是项目应该怎样传递信息的问题。附着力因素首先告诉我们要在诸多卖点中提炼出高质量的信息，并寻找一种简单的信息包装方法，使信息变得不可抗拒。环境威力法则针对的是客户感知与项目期望表达的信息是否高度一致的问题。

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这本书是《纽约客》杂志专职作家马尔科姆·格拉德威尔的一部才华横溢之作。他以社会上突如其来的流行风潮研究为切入点，从一个全新的角度探索了控制科学和营销模式。他认为，思想、行为、信息以及产品常常会像传染病发一样，迅速传播蔓延。正如一个病人就能引起一场全城流感；如果个别工作人员对顾客大打出手，或几位涂鸦爱好者管不住自己，也能在地铁里掀起一场犯罪浪潮；一位满意而归的顾客还能让新开张的餐馆座无虚席。这些现象均属“社会流行潮”，它发的那一刻，即达到临界水平的那一刻，就是一个引点。

格拉德威尔走访了团体、成功的高科技公司以及全球最优秀的推销员，他在书中分析了几种有利于开创流行风潮的性格特征，剖析了种种极具感染力的事件，如各种风尚、吸烟现象、儿童电视、商业邮寄广告等，并阐明其背后的。通过大量深具说明力的研究，揭示出发起流行潮并保持其势头的原则和方法。对于企业领袖、艺术家、思想者、设计师而言，这本书可以帮助你找到一种拓展影响、传播观念的全新思路。

《引点》可谓是一部智力历险记忆，妙趣横生，极富有感染力，让人充分感受到思想的魅力和愉悦。尤其重要的是，这本书如同一幅思维导航图，让人看到思维的一种新的拓展方尸并且相信，一个富有想像力的人只要能找准引点，就能打开一个充满惊喜的世界。

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马尔科姆·格拉德威尔，被《快公司》誉为“21世纪的彼得·德鲁克”，曾是《华盛顿邮报》商务科学专栏作家，目前是《纽约客》杂志专职作家。2005年被《时代》周刊评为全球最有影响力的100位人物之一。2005年，他更是创造书市神话，两部作品 Tipping Point（《引点》）和 Blink 同时位居《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜精装本和平装本第一名。《异类》是他最新推出的一本力作。 马尔科姆出生于英格兰，是牙买加人的后裔。在加拿大长大，现居纽约市。他曾经做过卫生政策和科学新闻方面的记者，其文章喜欢以小见大。马尔科姆是一个非常有创意的作家，他认为自己的文风属于一种adventure of ideas的风格，虽然大部分作品都不属于虚构，又不是围绕一个人物或者一个故事展开，但其中的故事情节却一般比较曲折，看他的文章很有adventure波澜起伏的韵味。

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