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Talks at GoogleDavid and Goliath | Malcolm Gladwell | Talks at Google
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EPISODE INFO
- Released
- October 16, 2013
- Duration
- 57m
- Channel
- Talks at Google
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
Malcolm Gladwell, the original speaker for the Authors at Google series, returns to Mountain View for a discussion about his latest book: "David and Goliath". Malcolm was interviewed by Prasad Setty of the People Analytics group at Google. Malcolm Gladwell, the #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and What the Dog Saw, offers his most provocative---and dazzling---book yet. Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a stone and a sling, and ever since then the names of David and Goliath have stood for battles between underdogs and giants. David's victory was improbable and miraculous. He shouldn't have won. Or should he have? In David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell challenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, offering a new interpretation of what it means to be discriminated against, or cope with a disability, or lose a parent, or attend a mediocre school, or suffer from any number of other apparent setbacks.
SPEAKERS
Prasad Setty
hostGoogle People Operations leader who leads an analytics group composed of social scientists.
Malcolm Gladwell
guestBest-selling author and journalist, known for books including The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and David and Goliath.
EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of Talks at Google, featuring Prasad Setty and Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath | Malcolm Gladwell | Talks at Google explores Gladwell on underdogs: redefining advantage, prestige, and innovation under constraint Malcolm Gladwell frames "David and Goliath" as a study of asymmetrical conflicts, arguing that underdogs often win by adopting strategies that overturn conventional assumptions about advantage.
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