Book Review - Outliers: The Story of Success by Farid A. Muna
Outliers: The Story of Success
By Malcolm Gladwell
Little, Brown and Company, November 2008.

Malcolm Gladwell is the bestselling author of The Tipping Point and Blink. His latest book, Outliers, has been on the best seller list of The New York Times for eight straight months, since it was published in November 2008. Gladwell�s engaging and journalistic writing style and his talent for simplifying complex issues, I believe, are his secrets of success post by haiyan701. And these are the reasons why his books are both controversial and popular. His latest book is no exception.

Outliers attempts to explain the secrets of successful people; it proposes that intelligence (IQ) alone is not a guarantee of success in life. However, this view is an already well-known fact that has been established during the early 1990s by a host of academic studies which discovered that success indeed requires add ... Read more »