Malcolm Gladwell Looks At Technology Innovations

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Innovation and originality are close cousins. We think of creative innovators as people with new ideas. But to read Malcolm Gladwell on the subject is to be reminded of a distinction: An innovator may not be the one with the new idea — but with a new take on an old idea. Robert Siegel interviews Gladwell, who wrote "Creation Myth: Xerox PARC, Apple, and the truth about innovation" in the May 16th issue of The New Yorker.

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Now, Malcolm Gladwell is taking on success itself, in a new book called “Outliers.” He’s looking at how society and culture determine who we are, and in particular, what accounts for super-success — for the outsized success of superstars.

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This hour, On Point: Malcolm Gladwell, on the ecology of success.

http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2008/11/malcolm-gladwells-outliers/

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Malcolm Gladwell asks why we equate genius with precocity. Here Gladwell talks about how artistic prodigies differ from late bloomers and the kinds of support over decades that some artists need to realize their gifts.

The full article is here: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/10/20/081020fa_fact_gladwell

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