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Vad har Bill Gates och Beatles gemensamt? Varför är asiatiska barn så duktiga i matematik? Kan man verkligen bli bra på vad som helst med 10 000-timmars träning? Med andra ord: Vad står bakom exceptionell framgång - medfödd talang eller hård och målmedveten träning? Få böcker som getts ut på denna sida millennieskiftet haft en sådan genomslagskraft som Malcolm Gladwells »Outliers«. Med sin patenterade mix av psykologisk forskning, underhållande berättelser och häpnadsväckande statistik har Malcolm Gladwell omdefinierat vår syn på framgång - och hur man når den. »Outliers« ser bortom de klassiska förklaringarna bakom framgång - som ambition och intelligens - och söker istället svaren i historien, detaljerna och omgivningen. »Det är en exceptionell förmåga att ta strypgrepp på tidsandan och vrida om som gör Malcolm Gladwell till en stor författare.« Dagens Nyheter »Det har sagts att det som Malcolm Gladwell tänker i dag, det tänker vi andra i morgon.« -Sydsvenskan »Redan efter två kapitel har man lärt sig något som sätter nytt ljus på tillvaron. Alla som blir verkligt bra på något har en sak gemensamt: de har alla lagt ned minst 10 000 timmar.« -Jan Gradvall »Outliers är en fängslande bok med ett viktigt budskap: genom att förstå vad som gör människor framgångsrika borde vi kunna ännu fler framgångsrika (och lyckliga) människor.« -The Economist

From the bestselling author of Blink and The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: The Story of Success overturns conventional wisdom about genius to show us what makes an ordinary person an extreme overachiever.Why do some people achieve so much more than others? Can they lie so far out of the ordinary?In this provocative and inspiring book, Malcolm Gladwell looks at everyone from rock stars to professional athletes, software billionaires to scientific geniuses, to show that the story of success is far more surprising, and far more fascinating, than we could ever have imagined.He reveals that it's as much about where we're from and what we do, as who we are - and that no one, not even a genius, ever makes it alone. Outliers will change the way you think about your own life story, and about what makes us all unique.'Gladwell is not only a brilliant storyteller; he can see what those stories tell us, the lessons they contain' Guardian'Malcolm Gladwell is a global phenomenon ... he has a genius for making everything he writes seem like an impossible adventure' Observer'He is the best kind of writer - the kind who makes you feel like you're a genius, rather than he's a genius' The Times

In this landmark work, the author of "Blink" and "The Tipping Point" asks what makes high-achievers different? Brilliant and entertaining, "Outliers" is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.

Learn what sets high achievers apart -- from Bill Gates to the Beatles -- in this #1 bestseller from "a singular talent" (New York Times Book Review). In this stunning book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different?His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.Brilliant and entertaining, Outliers is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The most influential book of the past seventy-five years: a groundbreaking exploration of everything we know about what we don’t know, now with a new section called “On Robustness and Fragility.”A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives.Why do we not acknowledge the phenomenon of black swans until after they occur? Part of the answer, according to Taleb, is that humans are hardwired to learn specifics when they should be focused on generalities. We concentrate on things we already know and time and time again fail to take into consideration what we don’t know. We are, therefore, unable to truly estimate opportunities, too vulnerable to the impulse to simplify, narrate, and categorize, and not open enough to rewarding those who can imagine the “impossible.”For years, Taleb has studied how we fool ourselves into thinking we know more than we actually do. We restrict our thinking to the irrelevant and inconsequential, while large events continue to surprise us and shape our world. In this revelatory book, Taleb will change the way you look at the world, and this second edition features a new philosophical and empirical essay, “On Robustness and Fragility,” which offers tools to navigate and exploit a Black Swan world.Taleb is a vastly entertaining writer, with wit, irreverence, and unusual stories to tell. He has a polymathic command of subjects ranging from cognitive science to business to probability theory. Elegant, startling, and universal in its applications, The Black Swan is a landmark book—itself a black swan.

Praise for LIARS & OUTLIERS"Without trust, nothing can be achieved. Liars and Outliers is a brilliant analysis of the role of trust in society and business."—Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum"Schneier absolutely understands how profoundly trust oils the wheels of business and of daily life."—Margaret Heffernan, Author of Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future and Beyond Measure: The Big Impact of Small Changes"Liars and Outliers is an absolutely fascinating and groundbreaking book. While written years before AI, which is often seen as a catch-all to solve all of humanity's problems, Schneier compellingly shows that in our complex society, there are no simple solutions."—Ben Rothke, Senior Information Security Manager, Tapad"Brilliantly dissects, classifies, and orders the social dimension of security-a spectacularly palatable tonic against today's incoherent and dangerous flailing in the face of threats from terrorism to financial fraud."—Cory Doctorow, Author of Little Brother and Makers, Co-editor of BoingBoing.net"Trust is the sine qua non of the networked age and trust is predicated on security. Bruce Schneier's expansive and readable work is rich with insights that can help us make our shrinking world a better one."—Don Tapscott, Co-author of Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World

From New York Times bestselling author Kimberley McCreight comes the first book in a breathtakingly brilliant new trilogy, packed with tension, romance and thrilling twists and turns.They’ll get inside your head…Imagine if you could see inside the minds of everyone around you – your best friend, your boyfriend, your enemies…?Imagine how valuable you’d be…Imagine how much danger you’d be in…Imagine being an Outlier.It all starts with a text:Please Wylie, I need your help.Wylie hasn't heard from her one time best friend, Cassie, in over a week. Not since their last fight. But that doesn't matter. Cassie's in trouble, and it’s up to Wylie to do what she does best, save her best friend from herself.This time it's different though – Cassie's texts are increasingly cryptic and scary. And instead of having Wylie come by herself, Jasper shows up saying Cassie asked him to help. Trusting the super-hot boy who sent Cassie off the rails doesn't feel right, but Wylie has no choice.But as Wylie and Jasper follow Cassie’s bizarre trail, Wylie has a growing sense that something is REALLY wrong. What isn’t Cassie telling them? Who is she with and what do they want from her? And could finding her be just the beginning…?

From New York Times bestselling author Kimberley McCreight comes the first book in a breathtakingly brilliant new trilogy, packed with tension, romance and thrilling twists and turns.They’ll get inside your head…Imagine if you could see inside the minds of everyone around you – your best friend, your boyfriend, your enemies…?Imagine how valuable you’d be…Imagine how much danger you’d be in…Imagine being an Outlier.It all starts with a text:Please Wylie, I need your help.Wylie hasn''t heard from her one time best friend, Cassie, in over a week. Not since their last fight. But that doesn''t matter. Cassie''s in trouble, and it’s up to Wylie to do what she does best, save her best friend from herself.This time it''s different though – Cassie''s texts are increasingly cryptic and scary. And instead of having Wylie come by herself, Jasper shows up saying Cassie asked him to help. Trusting the super-hot boy who sent Cassie off the rails doesn''t feel right, but Wylie has no choice.But as Wylie and Jasper follow Cassie’s bizarre trail, Wylie has a growing sense that something is REALLY wrong. What isn’t Cassie telling them? Who is she with and what do they want from her? And could finding her be just the beginning…?

From the bestselling author of Blink and The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: The Story of Success overturns conventional wisdom about genius to show us what makes an ordinary person an extreme overachiever.Why do some people achieve so much more than others? Can they lie so far out of the ordinary?In this provocative and inspiring book, Malcolm Gladwell looks at everyone from rock stars to professional athletes, software billionaires to scientific geniuses, to show that the story of success is far more surprising, and far more fascinating, than we could ever have imagined.He reveals that it's as much about where we're from and what we do, as who we are - and that no one, not even a genius, ever makes it alone. Outliers will change the way you think about your own life story, and about what makes us all unique.'Gladwell is not only a brilliant storyteller; he can see what those stories tell us, the lessons they contain' Guardian'Malcolm Gladwell is a global phenomenon ... he has a genius for making everything he writes seem like an impossible adventure' Observer'He is the best kind of writer - the kind who makes you feel like you're a genius, rather than he's a genius' The Times

Since the last century, the relationship between vanguard and self-taught artists has been defined by contradiction. The established art world has been quick to make clear distinctions between trained and untrained artists, yet at the same time it has been fascinated by outliers whom it draws selectively and intermittently into its orbits. For a new exhibition launching at the National Gallery of Art, curator Lynne Cooke explores shifting conceptualizations of the American outlier across the twentieth century, drawing on the inherent sociality of the exhibition in her installation of these works. This companion catalog, Outliers and American Vanguard Art, offers a fantastic opportunity to consider works by schooled and self-taught creators in relation to each other and defined by historical circumstance. The art works in Outliers and American Vanguard Art come from three distinct periods when the intersections between mainstream and outlier artists were most dynamic and productive, ushering in exhibitions of art based on various degrees of co-existence, inclusion, and assimilation.Works by such diverse artists as Charles Sheeler, Christina Ramberg, and Matt Mullican are set in conversation with a range of works by such self-taught artists as Horace Pippin, Janet Sobel, and Henry Darger. Cooke also examines a recent increase of radically expressive work that challenges what it means to be an outlier today. She reveals how these distinctions have been freighted with a particularly American point of view as she investigates our assumptions about creativity, artistic practice, and the role of the artist in contemporary culture. Outliers and American Vanguard Art is the most comprehensive show ever to examine outliers in dialogue with their established peers. It is sure to inspire vigorous conversation about how artists and the work they make are represented.

Explore what sets high achievers apart—from Bill Gates to the Beatles—in this seminal work from "a singular talent" (New York Times Book Review) Malcolm Gladwell, bestselling author of Blink and The Bomber Mafia and host of the podcast Revisionist History  In this stunning book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"—the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band. Brilliant and entertaining, Outliers is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.

From its initial publication this book has been the standard text on the subject. Since then there has been a continuing high level of activity, and work has developed in all major areas. This third edition reflects the latest state of knowledge with fully revised and extended coverage of all topics. Additional topics and new emphases are presented and a richer coverage of practical fields and computer-based facilities, together with a fully updated reference list, are provided.

Outliers are the key focus of this book. The authors concentrate on the practical aspects of dealing with outliers in the forms of data that arise most often in applications: single and multiple samples, linear regression, and factorial experiments. Available only as an E-Book.

A team of teens from all corners of the earth - statistical outliers in talents and intelligence - come together to fight against UNITEED, the warped world government that believes the norm is the ideal. UNITEED is suppressing environmental recovery and systematically reducing and controlling outside cultures. Only those young enough to be 'uncounseled' toward the norm can lead the way to change. They must thwart the ultimate goal of the Reverend Doctor: to bring all of humanity into genetically-manipulated communion.Pan Espere selects the seven team members, each uniquely qualified due to their influence over pop culture - in sports, film, music, art, adventuring, technology, and opinion. But did she make the right choices? Her choices include the team leader, Senon Cormac, the son of the Reverend Doctor himself. But did she make the right choice? Abran Negasi isn't the one chosen to lead, but will he play a greater role than she planned? Especially since he's the one who leads her heart into places she'd rather not explore. Is Abran's own heart still with the love he lost when his Holdout village was destroyed? Will Senon be able to separate his hatred of his father from the goals of the team? And can he focus on the team and its mission when Pan is such an intriguing and attractive puzzle? Together, the Outliers must stop the Reverend Doctor before his plan succeeds.Fans of the Hunger Games, Divergent, and Legend series will be excited to read Outliers, Book 1 of the EOD series. This is the second edition, with new additions such as the map and lexicon.

The book is a collection of different aspects of outliers and related topics written by experts. Topics covered include definition of outliers, their sources, consequences, identification, computational and robustness issues, handling of outliers in diversified areas of statistics such as univariate and multivariate data, linear and generalized linear models, time series, linear functional and structural models, circular data, spatial data, big data, high dimensional data, multi-view data. The book emphasizes the importance of outliers, and will appeal to workers in Data Mining; which is one of the fastest-growing business applications of statistics. The book makes outlier detection methods widely usable by practitioners. Examples are drawn from various fields.

The book is a collection of different aspects of outliers and related topics written by experts. Topics covered include definition of outliers, their sources, consequences, identification, computational and robustness issues, handling of outliers in diversified areas of statistics such as univariate and multivariate data, linear and generalized linear models, time series, linear functional and structural models, circular data, spatial data, big data, high dimensional data, multi-view data. The book emphasizes the importance of outliers, and will appeal to workers in Data Mining; which is one of the fastest-growing business applications of statistics. The book makes outlier detection methods widely usable by practitioners. Examples are drawn from various fields.

This book examines the significance of the Brisbane Olympics and Paralympics, taking place in 2032, in the context of the history and future of the Olympic Movement.As an outlier host, Brisbane is an experiment towards a new Olympic and Paralympic future. In an era of rising costs, the Brisbane Games represent a significant shift away from megacities towards a more sustainable future for the Olympics. Drawing on research including media analysis, published interviews and official documents, and considering host cities and nations, legacies, athletes and Olympic history, this book examines the viability of Olympic outliers and asks whether they might develop into the Olympic mainstream.This is an important read for anybody with an interest in the Olympics, sport history, sport media, sport governance and policy, or events.

In this timely book, Martin Ruef and Colin Birkhead consider how academics and practitioners can learn from unusual entrepreneurs, leaders, and organizations. They clarify how researchers make sense of extremes – in particular, whether they see them as outliers (extreme cases) or anomalies (extreme events).Chapters examine key outliers and anomalies throughout economic history, including eBay, General Electric, the House of Rothschild and Madam C.J. Walker. The book offers in-depth investigations of businesses and leaders, focusing on the distinctive qualities that drive performance. It assesses anomalous events via parameters and processes, highlighting spatial, temporal, industry and organizational contexts that shift performance outcomes. Pairing analysis of real world examples with comparison groups, Ruef and Birkhead address our bias towards extreme cases and events, while employing methodological tools for learning from them through qualitative, frequentist and Bayesian approaches.Managing Outliers and Anomalies is an insightful resource for scholars and students of entrepreneurship, leadership, organizations, sociology and public policy. The integrated case studies also make this essential reading for practitioners in business and entrepreneurship.

In this timely book, Martin Ruef and Colin Birkhead consider how academics and practitioners can learn from unusual entrepreneurs, leaders, and organizations. They clarify how researchers make sense of extremes - in particular, whether they see them as outliers (extreme cases) or anomalies (extreme events).Chapters examine key outliers and anomalies throughout economic history, including eBay, General Electric, the House of Rothschild and Madam C.J. Walker. The book offers in-depth investigations of businesses and leaders, focusing on the distinctive qualities that drive performance. It assesses anomalous events via parameters and processes, highlighting spatial, temporal, industry and organizational contexts that shift performance outcomes. Pairing analysis of real world examples with comparison groups, Ruef and Birkhead address our bias towards extreme cases and events, while employing methodological tools for learning from them through qualitative, frequentist and Bayesian approaches.Managing Outliers and Anomalies is an insightful resource for scholars and students of entrepreneurship, leadership, organizations, sociology and public policy. The integrated case studies also make this essential reading for practitioners in business and entrepreneurship.

In this timely book, Martin Ruef and Colin Birkhead consider how academics and practitioners can learn from unusual entrepreneurs, leaders, and organizations. They clarify how researchers make sense of extremes - in particular, whether they see them as outliers (extreme cases) or anomalies (extreme events).Chapters examine key outliers and anomalies throughout economic history, including eBay, General Electric, the House of Rothschild and Madam C.J. Walker. The book offers in-depth investigations of businesses and leaders, focusing on the distinctive qualities that drive performance. It assesses anomalous events via parameters and processes, highlighting spatial, temporal, industry and organizational contexts that shift performance outcomes. Pairing analysis of real world examples with comparison groups, Ruef and Birkhead address our bias towards extreme cases and events, while employing methodological tools for learning from them through qualitative, frequentist and Bayesian approaches.Managing Outliers and Anomalies is an insightful resource for scholars and students of entrepreneurship, leadership, organizations, sociology and public policy. The integrated case studies also make this essential reading for practitioners in business and entrepreneurship.