He has an unsurpassed ability to be both entertaining and challenging. He was previously a reporter for The Washington Post.Malcolm is an extraordinary speaker: always on target, aware of the context and the concerns of the audience, informative and practical, poised, eloquent and warm and funny. Giants can be such things as a disability, misfortune or oppression. Gladwell opens with a re-telling of the classic story of David and Goliath and then goes onto to explain all of the historical inaccuracies in the tale and how this has shaped our understanding of what it takes to beat a giant. He has won a national magazine award and been honored by the American Psychological Society and the American Sociological Society. Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants. With his latest book, David and Goliath, he examines our understanding of the advantages of disadvantages, arguing that we have underestimated the value of adversity and over-estimated the value of privilege.He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He has been named one of the 100 most influential people by TIME magazine and one of the Foreign Policy’s Top Global Thinkers.He has explored how ideas spread in the Tipping Point, decision making in Blink, and the roots of success in Outliers. Other articles where David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants is discussed: Malcolm Gladwell: David and Goliath: Underdogs. Malcolm Gladwell is the author of five New York Times bestsellers - The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, and now, his latest, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants.
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