MUST READ: OUTLIERS
For this week's Must Read we want to recommend;
THE OUTLIERS - MALCOM GLADWELL In Outliers, Gladwell examines the factors that contribute to high levels of success. To support his thesis, he examines the causes of why the majority of Canadian ice hockey players are born in the first few months of the calendar year, how Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates achieved his extreme wealth, how The Beatles became one of the most successful musical acts in human history, how Joseph Flom built Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flominto one of the most successful law firms in the world, how cultural differences play a large part in perceived intelligenceand rational decision making, and how two people with exceptional intelligence, Christopher Langan and J. Robert Oppenheimer, end up with such vastly different fortunes. Throughout the publication, Gladwell repeatedly mentions the "10,000-Hour Rule", claiming that the key to achieving world class expertise in any skill, is, to a large extent, a matter of practicing the correct way, for a total of around 10,000 hours. Malcom Gladwell is also the writer of o.a. the well known "tipping point" a book that is frequently used throughout the study period of our Alumni.
