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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

From Booklist In business and government, major money is spent on prediction. Uselessly, according to Taleb, who administers a severe thrashing to MBA- and Nobel Prize-credentialed experts who make t… Read More »

The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki

From Publishers Weekly While our culture generally trusts experts and distrusts the wisdom of the masses, New Yorker business columnist Surowiecki argues that "under the right circumstances, groups a… Read More »

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell

Amazon.com Review Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, campaigns for snap judgments a… Read More »

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

Amazon.com Review "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 oth… Read More »

Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Amazon.com Review Amazon Best of the Month, November 2008: Now that he's gotten us talking about the viral life of ideas and the power of gut reactions, Malcolm Gladwell poses a more provocative ques… Read More »

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