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Best-selling Author, Social Theorist
Friday - March 26th, 2010
Malcolm Gladwell is a British-born Canadian journalist, author, and social theorist. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996 and is best known as the author of the books The Tipping Point (2000), Blink (2005), and Outliers (2008). He has an incomparable gift for interpreting new ideas in the social sciences and making them understandable, practical and valuable to business and general audiences alike.
Gladwell began his career at The American Spectator, a conservative monthly. From 1987 to 1996, he was a business and science writer, and later the New York City bureau chief, for The Washington Post. He is currently a staff writer for The New Yorker. His editor describes his work as a new genre of story, an idea-driven narrative that's focused on the everyday and combines research with material that’s more personal, social and historical.
In Outliers: The Story of Success, Gladwell suggests an exciting new approach to helping people succeed by using the factors that really foster success. Outliers debuted as a #1 bestseller for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, Barnes & Noble, and Publisher's Weekly. "My wish with Outliers is that it makes us understand how much of a group project success is. When outliers become outliers it is not just because of their own efforts. It's because of the contributions of lots of different people and lots of different circumstances."
With his first book Gladwell embedded the concept of The Tipping Point in our every-day vocabulary and gave organizations new tools for understanding how trends work. In Blink he analyzed first impressions, the snap judgments that we all make unconsciously and instinctively, and explores how we can master this important aspect of successful decision-making.
In 2005, Time named Malcolm Gladwell one of its 100 most influential people. In 2007, he received the American Sociological Association's first Award for Excellence in the Reporting of Social Issues. Also in 2007, Gladwell received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Malcolm Gladwell graduated from the University of Toronto, Trinity College, with a degree in history. He resides now in New York City.
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