Reply To: Books for coaches to read

[Eric Fink]

It has been mentioned on here before and many have talked about Malcolm Gladwell. Well, this article is an interview with him in which he discusses the theme of his next book.

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2877

I'll save you the time if you want though, here is the part that discusses it in the article.

Cappelli: Tell us about your book in progress.

Gladwell: I am interested in power and looking at relationships between the powerful and the powerless. But I'm still at a very early stage of feeling it out, so I don't have much to report…. It's a bunch of different ideas that I'm pursuing to try to understand [what happens] when someone weak confronts someone strong.

Cappelli: Was there an example that you saw that kicked it off for you, the equivalent of the lawyers in the New York firms?

Gladwell: Well, Arab Spring, obviously. I'm not using that example in my book, but that got me thinking. These are ideas I've been playing with in some of my articles in The New Yorker for the last couple of years, and so it's been in the back of my mind. It just took a while to figure out how I wanted to attack the book.