before! If current growth trends continue‚ at 7% per year‚ the company will eclipse $500 billion in annual sales in just over 4 years‚ and will become a trillion dollar a year company in sales by 2023! So‚ just what can we learn from the amazing success of Sam Walton and Wal-Mart? In a word‚ PLENTY! I think the tactics Sam Walton used to build Wal-Mart can be replicated by every one of us in our businesses and in our personal lives! I was so impressed by what I’d heard about Sam Walton’s leadership
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journalist and a public speaker‚ Gladwell’s work demands an accessible (and at times witty) tone‚ and this pattern is evident in Outliers: The Story of Success. A short read with helpful footnotes may disguise itself as yet another grabby “guide to success‚” but Outliers defies this preconceived notion. Rather‚ it challenges the exhausted trope of the “rags to riches” story‚ and examines the role of privilege and “luck” in personal and professional achievement. To question the validity of an idea so
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The amount of Final Destination movies that I’ve watched will always make me anxious in airports‚ even if I know the movie is pure fiction. While reading Gladwell’s theory in Outliers about plane crashes being a result of poor communication and seven consecutive minor human errors (184)‚ I could feel my heart racing. I felt so frustrated because I felt like all of it could’ve been prevented. For example‚ Klotz using the word “ah” while telling the ATC that the plane was running out of fuel made me
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Traveling is widely believed to broaden the mind and enrich the soul. The famous saying "Don’t tell me how educated you are‚ tell me how much you have traveled" indicates that travel can enlarge people’s knowledge efficiently. Many people believe that when you visit other places you experience new things and learn from them. To my mind‚ it’s impossible to imagine our life without traveling. Getting out of the place where you always live‚ then going to an unfamiliar place is a kind of unforgettable
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The transition from one level of schooling to the next is very hard for me the first year. In my life the hardest was from elementary school to middle. In Florida fifth grade was technically the end of elementary school‚ but my elementary school was a magnet school so it ended at 6th grade which I thought was the worst idea. The same year I began seventh grade is the same year I moved to a different city because of the city I moved into I thought school was going to be piece of cake. But little did
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Elisa troubles are in my opinion entirely her fault and she is responsible for everything that happens to her. Elisa is a woman who’s unhappy with the overall image of a woman and what a woman was supposed to do; like stay in the home and be the gardener and the cook and maintain the household completely‚ while the man of the house went out and made the money while exploring more then what he already owned. This is reflected in the story when Elisa is gardening at the beginning of the story.
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Success by Chance? In Gladwell’s opening chapter of Outliers‚ he begins to tell us about where success comes from. Right away he makes clear that people do not come from nothing‚ to be successful‚ all on their own. He does this because you often here sports broadcasters say‚ “John Doe‚ came from absolutely nothing‚ to become this sports All-Start.” Gladwell uses the analogy of the tallest tree in the forest. He says that that tree does not get to be the tallest on its own. Gladwell reminds us that
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Unlike what Gladwell had proposed in his theory that success is not merely dependent on individual’s hard work‚ Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin insists that success is solely based on that. In many of the events that are described in the autobiography‚ Franklin‚ presents the story he believes have shaped him while subtly mentioning the qualities he possessed. To Franklin‚ all of his success was based on himself and one quality that he implicitly states that he had possessed
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The story starts in Akron‚ Ohio in a run down home. With LeBron’s father‚ leaving him and his mother at a young age. LeBron’s mother had multiple jobs to help provide for him and herself. But it wasn’t enough‚ they were evicted multiple times and had to move home to home constantly. LeBron had to start over multiple times at different schools. But he and his mother stayed at his former High School (St.Mary). He and his mother also continued to have money problems
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Over my four-month summer break my goal was to get my hands on as many books as possible. One of the books that I came across was called “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell. After reading this book on my flight to Asia I fell in love with the book and admired the author. His writing was organized in a way where it was easy to comprehend and he was able to support his evidence with research and statistics. Although there are a lot of scholarly terms that is used to support his study‚ he uses a more simplified
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