What The Dog Saw - Malcolm Gladwell

I found this book in my favorite bookshop in Amsterdam. I guess I'm no ready yet for the tablet readers. There is something about the short moment when you decide to give a chance to a book. You open it and read a few sentences. Give it a second try and read again the title and the back. The decision making process lasts maybe only a minute. I cannot find the same love and hate - quick snap feeling on the electronic media.

Yes, I liked it. A lot. As usual when it's a good read, I finish it very quickly. What the dog saw is like many short stories and yet there is a kind of common pattern. It's the Gladwell's way in making you discover an idea and challenging your thoughts. Malcolm Gladwell is very good at explaining in a few simple words a concept or an idea that is rather complicated at a glance.

The simplicity of short texts and rather easy to understand ideas should not let me overlook the job done by the author. There is a huge amount of work, experiences and meetings that resulted in this book. The magic or better said the talent of Malcolm Gladwell is to be able to give sense to all this material and write for us great synthesis with deep insight.

I loved the chapter on the job interview "The New-Boy Network" and I'll really have to get more information on structured interview. The last 2 interviews I made were probably not efficient at all. My other favorites are "Blowing Up" and "Dangerous Mind". The first because I heard before about Nassim Taleb but never got further because his book Black Swam was said to be a difficult read. The second because it was like it echoed from the recent French debate on Freud from the book 'Apostille au Crépuscule. Pour une psychanalyse non freudienne' from Michel Onfray.

I didn't find much interest in the dog stories. Maybe because I don't like dogs or maybe because I think the insight was a little lighter. I really thought going nowhere when Gladwell described lengthily the cooking machines in "The Pitchman" but I discovered a lot when he presented the different tastes for mustard and spaghetti sauce. I also watch the related TED video.

I'm wondering if I should read Malcolm Gladwell's other books. Just by reading a short summary of each, they seems related to each story in What the dog saw. The book Outliers original and great to bring me inspiration and motivation to achieve my dreams. 

Anyway, what the dog saw is really a good book and I would like to recommend it to anyone. I'll try to follow any of the next great insight from Malcolm Gladwell.