The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Wheeler Compass) (Back Bay Books)

by Malcolm Gladwell

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"The Tipping Point" is the biography of an idea, and the idea is quite simple: that many of the problems we face - from murder to teenage delinquency to traffic jams - behave like epidemics. They aren't linear phenomena in the sense that they steadily and predictably change according to the level of effort brought to bear against them. They are capable of sudden and dramatic changes in direction. Years of well-intentioned intervention may have no impact at all, yet the right intervention - at just the right time - can start a cascade of change. Many of the...Read more
  • ISBN10 1417665793
  • ISBN13 9781417665792
  • Publish Date 1 January 2002 (first published 1 March 2000)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Turtleback
  • Edition Turtleback School & Library ed.
  • Format Hardcover (Library Binding)
  • Pages 304
  • Language English