#42 in Business
The Tipping Point
- 288
- Pages
- about 5 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 0 weeks on the list
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About the book
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference is the debut book by Canadian writer Malcolm Gladwell, first published by Little, Brown in 2000. Gladwell defines a tipping point as "the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point." The book seeks to explain and describe the "mysterious" sociological changes that mark everyday life. As Gladwell states: "Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread like viruses do." The examples of such changes in his book include the rise in popularity and sales of Hush Puppies shoes in the mid-1990s and the steep drop in New York City's crime rate after 1990.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.6 across 99 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 40% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Business average of 7.9. That is how 7.8 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.6 | 99 | 100% |
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How long is The Tipping Point?
It has 288 pages — shorter than 71% of the ranked books in Business.
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