After writing my last blog entry on a multicultural workforce, where I recommended that Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers is required reading for leaders and managers, my friend Roland asked me what about people who aren’t in positions of power. I had already been thinking about this topic, and here’s the response.

The answer to his question actually goes beyond cultural differences and can potentially help anyone who has more analytical intelligence (the kind you learn in school) than practical intelligence (the kind you pick up along the way of life).

For any individual with more analytical than practical intelligence, Outliers is particularly helpful, because reading the ...read more