Reflections for the business world
I was travelling with Joyce Gioia. A US based author and speaker when she talked to me about Marshall Goldstein’s , What got you here won’t get you there.I was intrigued and I went on to read about him. Just after I did that, I went on to re - read Malcolm Gladwell’s book - Tipping Point. As they say he is "just a thinker." But what a thinker. . His provocative ideas are taking the business world by storm. So who is this person, and what can he teach us about business. What can we learn? Danielle Sacks talks about the Accidental Guru and I produce the excerpts from the article: "I really like that term 'momentary autism,' " a woman says softly into the mike. She is in the back of the Times Square Studios speaking to a room of some 200 people, and more important, Malcolm Gladwell, who's standing solo onstage. It's the second day of the fifth annual New Yorker Festival, and Gladwell has just finished a detailed reprise of the seven seconds that led to