Book Review Outliers

Book Review: Outliers This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules -- . The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. Top 10 Posts on Categories Most of us have heard of Malcolm Gladwell’s other books: The Tipping Point and Blink. Both of them are excellent books and established Malcolm’s pattern for writing: Find studies that tell a story about something commonplace that blows up our assumptions. “Outliers: The Story of Success” is no different, but the book has implications for knowledge workers. Lots of implications. Outliers is a book about how success is achieved. It attacks our assumptions about how success is attained at all different levels; whether it is luck or hard work or class or culture, all assumptions are examined. And the studies and the approach are riveting; I couldn’t put the (Amazon KindleOutliers will change your perception about success and how we run stuff. Your view of successful people will change because you can now infer how they became successful â€" and how you can too. Outliers isn’t a book about career management. But it will feed your craving for learning about what it really takes to be successful. […] the Kindle…Outliers was OK.   I’m not going to do a review on the book…check out these great book reviews for more info on the […] Reply @Eric Brown â€" I agree. It was fascinating at a personal level rather than his previous books that are more broadly focused. If you do the work and are excited about what you do, have a little luck from opportunities and great things can happen. I happen to believe that if you do the work and are excited about what you do, opportunities will find you. Reply I’m reading this book now and have to say I’m liking it. I’ve never been a huge Malcolm Gladwell fan but I do like his ability to tell a story. The book has some excellent stories about how people who have ‘made it’ got where they are. Above all else…the book stress the fact that hard work and intelligence isn’t enough…you’ve got to have some luck on your side. Reply This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules â€" . The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. policies The content on this website is my opinion and will probably not reflect the views of my various employers. Apple, the Apple logo, iPad, Apple Watch and iPhone are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. I’m a big fan.