Outliers

Resumen del libro

In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual
journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing.

Biografía del autor

(born September 3, 1963) is a Canadian journalist, bestselling author, and speaker. 1 He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He has written five books, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (2000), Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005), Outliers: The Story of Success (2008), What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures (2009), a collection of his journalism, and David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (2013). All five books were on The New York Times Best Seller list.<br><br>Gladwell's books and articles often deal with the unexpected implications of research in the social sciences and make frequent and extended use of academic work, particularly in the areas of sociology, psychology, and social psychology. Gladwell was appointed to the Order of Canada on June 30, 2011<br><br><br><br>Malcolm Gladwell (Inglaterra, 1963) escribe habitualmente, desde 1996, para la revista The New Yorker. Es autor de Inteligencia intuitiva (Punto de Lectura, 2006), La clave del éxito. The Tipping Point (Taurus, 2007) y Fuera de serie (Punto de Lectura 2010), que han ocupado, todos ellos, primeros puestos en las listas internacionales de ventas. Antes de unirse a The New Yorker, trabajó como reportero para The Washington Post, del que cubría las secciones de Negocios y Ciencia y dirigió la oficina de Nueva York.