Title: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Format: Kindle
The Tipping Point was and still is ahead of its time as it looks at social and economic development. Gladwell reminds me of Dan Brown with his ability to use interesting and unknown facts to tell a story. However, in Gladwell’s case, the story he paints is a very large theory on sociology that he proves quite well.
Tipping Point shows us how very small changes in the environment of a growing situation can lead to exponential growth or rapid decline. Looking at it in even more depth, Gladwell explains how three types of people, Connectors, Maven, and Salesmen, are often necessary to get through the tipping point.
I could not agree more with Gladwell’s theory, but I find his smaller studies and references to be the most interesting points of the book. He makes us think on multiple levels as smaller studies prove his larger study.
More importantly, he walks you through the process in a way that makes you want to be part of tipping a scale in some way. He makes us want to find the Connectors, Maven, and Salesmen, in order to use them to create change. He makes us want to create simple changes to the environment that we know will completely tip the scales.
Gladwell is one of my favorite authors and speakers these days and this book, his first, was a defining characteristic for him. It makes me want to read every book of his and listen every time he speaks. If nothing else, he tipped my interest in social studies for the rest of my life.
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