Posts Tagged ‘making things understandable’

Analysts Arise – the Analytics Age is Nigh!?

Posted in Article Review, Business Management, Life-Long Learning, Personal Development on November 2nd, 2009 by Paul McArdle – 5 Comments

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Paul Klaptocz pointed me at this interesting blog post from Stephen Few entitled “Malcolm Gladwell, modern problems, and the analytics age”.

With us having read two of his books many months ago (Blink and the Tipping Point – sorry, no book reviews up yet) and having previously discussed the follow-on from his 3rd book (Outliers) in my post about the 10,000-hour rule, I was curious to read further. read more »

Blink

Posted in Book Review on July 1st, 2007 by Paul McArdle – Be the first to comment

Read this book soon after it was published in early 2007.  For now, this review is a simple binary review, and a placeholder for future comments…

1)  Binary Review

It’s good for two reasons

The Book

What we thought
Blink

“Blink – the power to think without thinking”
by Malcolm Gladwell		 Thumbs up

Great principle,
and it is
Clearly and entertainingly explained
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