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• Gladwell hatin

  
  Gene Expression — Authority: 474
  Some red meat for readers, Malcolm Gladwell, Memes and Intellectual Honesty : Gladwell comes across as a child trying to explain why his hand was in the cookie jar. He advances a series of unconvincing, somewhat contradictory explanations, hoping that we will ignore the larger problem. So far as I can tell from ...
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• My holiday to-do list

  
  The Good, The Bad, The Spin — Authority:
  I generally loathe the winter holidays; winter in general, in fact. I prefer with no exceptions 105-degree weather over any day with a temperature below 60. And winter in Reno is bizarrely... Click the article title to read more.
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• Sports Business: In So Many Words, the N.B.A. Redefined by Bill Simmons

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Bill Simmons, the ESPN.com columnist and podcaster, with a few of the many of newspapers he reads.
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• Sports Business: In So Many Words, the N.B.A. Redefined by Bill Simmons

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Bill Simmons, the ESPN.com columnist and podcaster, with a few of the many of newspapers he reads.
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• Why the Pursuit of Innovation Usually Fails - best practices kill innovation

  
  The Phoenix Principle — Authority: 118
  Leadership Why The Pursuit Of Innovation Usually Fails Adam Hartung , 11.09.09, 04:11 PM EST Its not what were trained for as leaders or how our businesses are set up to work. Forbes published today " Why the Pursuit of Innovation Usually Fails ."  "Most companies everywhere are s truggling to grow ...
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• Horror Chick, With Melissa Lafsky: Why “The Fourth Kind” Needs to Suckle at the Teat of Malcolm Gladwell

  
  The Awl — Authority: 641
  Collectively, we think alien abduction is dumb. I mean really dumb. Like, if I came home one day and said, “Hey, I was abducted by aliens,” somehow that would launch me deeper into Fucking Nutcase Territory than “Hey, I was possessed by a demon who’s been stalking me since childhood,” or “Hey, I was ...
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• Two Sides of the Same Story: Laskas & Gladwell on CTE & the NFL

  
  blprnt.blg — Authority: 500
  In October, I read a fascinating article on GQ.com about head injuries among former NFL players. Written by Jeanne Marie Laskas, the article was a forensic detective story, documenting a little known doctor’s efforts to bring the brain trauma issue to the attention of the medical community, the NFL, and the ...
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• How Do We Show Our Students That We Love Them?

  
  So You Want To Teach? — Authority: 116
  When I was struggling to find hope early in my career as a teacher, I came across a few pieces of advice given by King Solomon from the Proverbs: He who spares his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him promptly. — Proverbs 13:24 This one jumped out at me as I realized I overlooked way too ...
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• Whose Idea Is It?

  
  WhitneyHoffman.com — Authority: 505
  In reading Malcolm Gladwell’s “What The Dog Saw” , and watching his interview on WNYC talking about how someone lifted part of piece he wrote in the New Yorker as part of a larger Broadway play, I’ve been rethinking my approach to idea ownership. There are tons of ideas out there.  I say, I’m sure, ...
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• How Ideas Spread

  
  Digital Tonto — Authority: 118
  In 1865, Gregor Mendel published his paper that established him as the father of genetics. However, it went largely unnoticed until it was rediscovered decades later and became widely recognized as one of the great discoveries in the history of science. Why do some ideas quickly spread far and wide while others go ...
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• 10 Books That Rocked My World

  
  So You Want To Teach? — Authority: 116
  Over the last decade, I have read a handful of great books that forced me to think and consider a lot of things about the way I was living. I’ve mentioned some of these books before on the blog, but this week I read another one of those kinds of books and thought I would share more with my readers about some of ...
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• Dept. of Obvious?

  
  Mostly Movies — Authority: 132
  Gladwell: Genius or dispenser of banality? Long but worth it. (The Nation) That success is in the eye of the unsuccessful would seem to be the great unspoken dilemma dogging critics asked to consider the work of the rich and famous author and inspirational speaker Malcolm Gladwell. No matter how well intentioned ...
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• The Difference Betweening Listening and Hearing

  
  WhitneyHoffman.com — Authority: 505
  I have been a big fan of Malcolm Gladwell’s work ever since reading The Tipping Point several years ago. About a week ago, I started bought and started reading “ What the Dog Saw and other adventures “, a book that’s largely a collection of his work in The New Yorker. It’s a book that you can basically ...
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• I knew all along that the recession had to be his fault

  
  Steve Sailer's iSteve Blog — Authority: 627
  The economy collapsed when Lehman Bros. went bankrupt on September 15, 2008. Joe Wiesenthal of Clusterstock has now brought to the publics attention the real villain behind the economic crash. On p. 120 of Andrew Ross Sorkins book Too Big to Fail , in a discussion of Lehmans president Joseph Gregory : He loved ...
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• Gladwell for Dummies

  
  The Sly Oyster | culture, entertainment, liberal arts, shenanigans — Authority: 446
  Mo Tkacik tackles the conundrum that is Malcolm Gladwell .  In that case, perhaps Gladwell’s intellectual compromises are neither commercial nor unintentional but rather a necessary outgrowth of his higher calling: to explore the secret workings of the world and impart the resulting data to its self-appointed ...
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• Malcolm Gladwell Explained

  
  The Awl — Authority: 641
  “Gladwell’s protagonists are generally intelligent but ordinary folks who have imbued their work with a passionate practicality. Their laboratories are courtrooms and high-concept shopping malls, office parks and African villages, but whatever their locale, they are always buried in data, endless stacks and reams ...
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• The 10,000 hour rule

  
  The Every Nation Plog — Authority: 118
  by Larry Matsuwaki   Malcolm Gladwell got me thinking from his book “Outliers” after reading what he called the 10,000 hour rule. He mentions a study done in the early 1990’s by psychologist K. Anders Ericsson at Berlin’s elite Academy of Music. He divided the school’s violinists into three groups: 1) ...
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• Gladwell for Dummies

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 734
  Such are the contradictions that seem to riddle not just Gladwells thinking but the thinking on Gladwells thinking, and perhaps even the thinking on thinking on that, and it is precisely these slippery but substantive contradictions that have allowed Gladwell to tout his revolutionary "big ideas" without couching them ...
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• Gladwell, I Am Told, Is Often Misunderstood [Malcolm Gladwell]

  
  Deadspin — Authority: 813
  Deadspins part-time weekend wrecker Moe Tkacik has penned an epically long story about Bill Simmons admirer and pezzy-haired cultural point-tipper Malcolm Gladwell for "The Nation." Feast.[ The Nation ]
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• Pro-Football, Injury, and Clear Christian Conscience

  
  Progressive Revival — Authority: 463
  Tom Krattenmaker is a Portland, Oregon-based writer specializing in religion in public life and a member of the USA Today Board of Contributors. He is the author of the new book "Onward Christian Athletes" examining Christian engagement with pro sports.             ...
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