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“The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behaviour crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire," says Malcolm Gladwell, on his concept of the 'Tipping Point'.
This idea explains how ideas spread like epidemics and details the elements which need to come together to help these ideas reach a point of ultimate critical mass, where their viral effect becomes unstoppable.
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference is the debut book by Malcolm Gladwell, first published in 2000. Let's jump in.
Malcolm Gladwell describes the "three rules of epidemics" in his work. These are also known as the three "agents of change", which sounds like a 70s spy film. Let's have a look at these three rules.
Malcolm Gladwell is a Canadian author of five bestsellers, The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, and David and Goliath.
He was, and continues to be, a staff writer at The New Yorker in 1996, and gained popularity with two articles in the publication that year, ‘The Tipping Point’ and ‘The Coolhunt.’ These two articles formed the basis for The Tipping Point.
Malcolm is the co-founder of Pushkin Industries, an audio content company that produces Malcolm’s podcasts Revisionist History and Broken Record. Gladwell has been included in the Time 100 Most Influential People list and was appointed to the Order of Canada on 30th June 2011.
“Emotion is contagious.”
- Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Marketers should aim to consider three lessons from the book, which will help them spread their own ideas in a similar way.
So, it might be good to note that when an idea reaches the tipping point, it spreads like fire. They should also consider that there are three kinds of people who are responsible for getting ideas to tip in this way:
The final consideration is the idea of stickiness; without stickiness, no idea will ever tip.
Malcolm gives the example of Instagram. They had a lot of growth early on – but it was still steady growth. There was a definite moment though, in February 2012, when all of a sudden, the entire world seemed to need an account.
It’s in this exact moment that Instagram’s user growth curve shoots up meteorically and it becomes the fastest growing social network of all time.
“If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behaviour...you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practised and expressed and nurtured.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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