Small Business Conversations by Network Solutions » outliers the story of success http://blog.networksolutions.com Small Business tips, interviews and conversations that provide advice and discussion about small business. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:48:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Malcolm Galdwell Speaks about Human Capitalization at Pop!Tech http://blog.networksolutions.com/2008/malcolm-galdwell-speaks-about-human-capitalization-at-poptech/ http://blog.networksolutions.com/2008/malcolm-galdwell-speaks-about-human-capitalization-at-poptech/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:00:14 +0000 Shashi Bellamkonda http://blog.networksolutions.com/?p=374

I was thrilled to meet Malcolm Gladwell at Pop!tech in October. Malcolm Gladwell’s book ‘Tipping Point” is one of the few non-fiction books my teen age daughter read and discussed with me. I am have a lot of respect for Malcolm Galdwell and I was thrilled to meet him at Pop!Tech and get his book autographed.Poptech @008 - Camden MainePop!tech released the video of his Talk on Human Capitalization which was a preview for his forthcoming book Outliers: The Story of Success that is being released on Nov 18th

Even though its been a few weeks since his talk , here are my thoughts from his talk.
- We are wasting some effective Human Capital by actions like choosing the big kids in each class for sports when they are 8 or 9.
This is a study by Barnsley RH, Thompson AH, Barnsley PE (1985). Hockey success and birth-date: The relative age effect. Journal of the Canadian Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, Nov.-Dec., 23-28
- There is a story on why some people believe Chinese Americans excel not because of IQ but because culturally they work hard and do not give up. ( See http://www.theamericanscholar.org/au07/flynn-restak.html and and http://www.indiana.edu/~intell/flynneffect.shtml ).
I am eagerly waiting to read Malcolm Gladwell’s new book Outliers.
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