Twenty-five years after the publication of his first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand-new volume that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a new light.
At times...the narrative seems unduly slow and discursive, as he shifts, sometimes abruptly, from topic to topic. Still, Gladwell’s update of his ideas about tipping points will probably satisfy hard-core fans, and challenge and divert other readers ... It is not necessary to buy everything Gladwell is selling to appreciate Revenge of the Tipping Point. It turns out that trying to poke holes in his arguments is at least half the fun.
Malcolm Gladwell could have written a fresh book. Instead, he created a brand extension ... A genre bender: self-help without the practical advice, storytelling without the literariness, nonfiction without the vital truths, entertainment without the pleasure, a thriller without actual revelation and a business book without the actionable insights ... He has chosen to be a farm stand that serves salty, fatty, sugary pseudo-thinking. His signature methodology is to convey relatively boilerplate, already well-known ideas, by rebranding the ideas and wrapping them in stories.
Gladwell is rehashing and rebuilding on the concepts that he first wrote about in 2000. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it wasn’t really necessary either ... Engaging but whiplash-inducing ... The sequel provides more of the same: nuggets of history and jargon that they soak up on airplanes and toss around during conference table conversations.