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The NFL Draft as a Predictor of Success (Round 3)

We made a few posts last year about the NFL and whether or not draft order is related to productivity. The core issue for us was a claim Malcolm Gladwell repeatedly asserted that the draft order of NFL quarterbacks (QBs) … Continue reading

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Gladwell vs Pinker

I’ll admit I’m in a curmudgeonly mood because I feel like I’m wasting time writing about something so obvious. But we’ve been implicated in a strange argument that erupted in the blogosphere last week, so I’m compelled to write a … Continue reading

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Gladwell Revisited

We’re going to file this one in the “we told you so” file!  The other day the famous Harvard psychologist Stephen Pinker reviewed Malcolm Galdwell’s newest essay collection in the New York Times, and it wasn’t pretty.  Pinker savages Gladwell, … Continue reading

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Gladwell’s New Yorker Article on Hiring

In my last post I compared a speech given by Malcolm Gladwell in the spring to the content of his new book Outliers, and wondered what had happened to the employee selection angle he had promised in the speech. Well, … Continue reading

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Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers

Recently on a plane the guy beside me was reading the same book I was – Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers. My fellow passenger didn’t think this was remarkable as the airport bookstores had huge displays. Gladwell has become somewhat of a … Continue reading

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