Outliers: The Story of Success

Gladwell, author of Blink, and Tipping Point, and keynoter at our 2006 VARBusiness 500 awards, brings his unique journalistic style to understanding the question of what makes some seemingly normal people become so outrageously successful, while the rest of us, despite brains and hard work, just struggle along. Publisher's Weekly said:

"Through case studies ranging from Canadian junior hockey champions to the robber barons of the Gilded Age, from Asian math whizzes to software entrepreneurs to the rise of his own family in Jamaica, Gladwell tears down the myth of individual merit to explore how culture, circumstance, timing, birth and luck account for success -- and how historical legacies can hold others back despite ample individual gifts."