February 14, 2010
FROM MY BOOKSHELF: Group Projects and Real People
By LeRoy Lawson Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2008). I had already read Malcolm Gladwell”s best-selling books The Tipping Point and Blink, so when Outliers appeared there was no question that this one, also, would be a must-read. I was not disappointed. The Tipping Point is a “big picture book”; Gladwell outlines the macro rules that govern social change. I”ve discovered that many ministerial friends have read the book or at least are familiar with its basics, since these fundamentals are so helpful in figuring out how to lead their sometimes obstreperous
