The Tipping Point
I have been watching the recent news out of the UK with some attention. Two issues strikes me as having Tipped:
1. Knife Crime
2. Obsession with Robert Mugabe
It’s obvious both reached their Tipping Point and somehow very recently. In his book The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell documents three essential reasons for these phenomenon: The Law of the Few; the Stickiness Factor and the Power of Context. What’s happening in the UK seems to have striking resemblances to what was happening in the New York subways in the 1980’s and 1990’s and which Gladwell documents extremely well. (more…)
