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Malcolm Gladwell

The Tipping Point

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  • RavilBцитирует6 лет назад
    different world than you. They are much more likely to know something that you don't. To capture this apparent paradox, Granovetter coined a marvelous phrase: the strength of weak ties.
  • RavilBцитирует6 лет назад
    Why is this? Granovetter argues that it is because when it comes to finding out about new jobs — or, for that matter, new information, or new ideas — "weak ties" are always more important than strong ties. Your friends, after all, occupy the same world that you do. They might work with you, or live near you, and go to the same churches, schools, or parties. How much, then, would they know that you wouldn't know? Your acquaintances, on the other hand, by definition occupy a very dif
  • RavilBцитирует6 лет назад
    will fold the sheet in their mind's eye, and guess that the pile would be as thick as a phone book or, if they're really courageous, they'll say that it would be as tall as a refrigerator. But the real answer is that the height of the stack would approximate the distance to the sun. And if you folded it over one more time, the stack would be as high as the distance to the sun and back.
  • RavilBцитирует6 лет назад
    Consider, for example, the following puzzle. I give you a large piece of paper, and I ask you to fold it over once, and then take that folded paper and fold it over again, and then again, and again, until you have refolded the original paper 50 times. How tall do you think the final stack is going to be? In answer to that question, most people
  • lawrencemedina08цитирует8 лет назад
    Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.
  • lawrencemedina08цитирует8 лет назад
    The Tipping Point is the biography of an idea, and the idea is very simple
  • lawrencemedina08цитирует8 лет назад
    one, contagiousness; two, the fact that little causes can have big effects; and three, that change happens not gradually but at one dramatic moment
  • lawrencemedina08цитирует8 лет назад
    second of the principles of epidemics — that little changes can somehow have big effects
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