Book Review: Outliers | Microsoft Share Point April 11, 2009 PingBack from http://microsoft-sharepoint.simplynetdev.com/book-review-outliers/ What's New April 11, 2009 I just finished up Outliers: The Story of Success tonight…. Gladwell is a masterful story teller Anonymous April...
If these are the basic ingredients that make up a book review, it’s the tone andstylewith which the book reviewer writes that brings the extra panache. This will differ from platform to platform, of course. A book review on Goodreads, for instance, will be much more informal and persona...
Book Review: Outliers: The Story Of Success: Tipping point for dumb luckMichiko Kakutani
This month’sPBreview is byRyan G. Van Cleave(Owner/Operator of Only Picture Books) and longtimeOPBfriend,Austin McKinley. —Ryan’s Review of the Writing— Some books teach. Some books delight.How Do You Eat Color?does both, inviting readers on a sensory journey through a rainbow of ...
a reasonable argument could be made that doing yard work is more dangerous than hiking or backpacking. But every activity has its outliers and thru-hiking is no exception, with injuries, fatal accidents, and even homicides unfortunately being part of the history of long-distance trails in North...
McKinsey-ites use three high-impact techniques in data collection. They start with the annual report. Next, they use computers to identify outliers, the key subjects for later investigation. Generally, these outliers are uncovered by comparing ratios or key measures like high and low performers. ...
Outliers: An Evaluation of Methodologies . . , xn from a population, we examine circumstances that lead to some of the values being deemed outliers and the methodologies proposed to analyze the data set in the presence of these outliers. We review methods of determining ... DG ∗,AV †...
In the book, Schneier makes note of those that don’t follow the rules. He calls these people defectors, and these are the liars and outliers of the book. The book notes that everything is a trade-off, and these defectors are the ones that try to break the rules. ...
The Concept of Cumulative Advantage If you've readOutliersby Malcom Gladwell, you'll have been introduced to the results of cumulative advantage, though not by name. It's the phenomenon that happenswhen a person has a small early advantage over others in their field, and that advantage compoun...
Today’s book review isLiars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive, by Bruce Schneier. Bruce Schneieris an internationally renowned security guru (he even has his owninternet meme). He started out as an expert on cryptography, but he now has much wider security inte...