“Why do some people succeed far more than others?” That’s the opening line on the book cover of Malcolm Gladwell’s new best seller “Outliers.” In it he writes about how a person needs a lot of things going his or her way to reach success. One of those things is having worked at something for 10,000 hours. In Gladwell’s opinion, this experience makes a person an expert. My associate at Placemaking Group, Irv Hamilton, is clearly an expert in Public Relations.
Halfway through this fascinating book about success, Gladwell then turns to the subject of how certain kinds of disaster can be cultural. And the example he uses is a situation in which Irv was completely involved! (more…)




