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Tipping the balance toward sane work-life practices.
Reading Malcolm Gladwell's book The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference brought an "aha!" moment for Dr. Kate Quinn, of the University of Washington. It perfectly described the creation of the Sloan-funded initiative "Balance@UW," which she directs as a major part of her duties as special assistant to the executive vice provost.
About half of the hands in the room went up when she asked an audience at the College and University Work/Family Association (CUWFA) conference in February how many had read the book. She and Randi Shapiro, UW assistant director of balance and work/life, used the "tipping point" model to explain the recent success ...
- Tipping Point Community to Receive $250,000 in Cash and HP Technology to Fight...
- Press release article from: Business Wire February 12, 2009 700+ words
HP Grant Is Final Push to Meeting Tipping Point's $2 Million Goal PALO ALTO, Calif...250,000 in cash and technology to Tipping Point Community, a San Francisco Bay Area...to inspire people to donate money to Tipping Point Community, the board of directors...
- Why some ideas fly, while others die: "The Tipping Point" author uses virus...
- Magazine article from: Photo Marketing Thall, Larry February 1, 2004 700+ words
"The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big...products take off, crossing the "tipping point," to become anything from fashion...course, not all ideas that cross the tipping point, even those with impressive staying...
- Tipping Point Theatre to provide pre-peformance wine tastings at select...
- Newspaper article from: Between the Lines Anonymous February 12, 2009 700+ words
NORTHVILLE - Tipping Point Theatre and Simply Wine, both of...Thursday evening performances of Tipping Point's upcoming production, "Rabbit...at 6: 30 p.m. in the lobby at Tipping Point Theatre. The production opens Feb...
- The tipping point; Bagehot.(Despite gloomy polls, the Tories have found a new...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) January 4, 2003 700+ words
...the desperate Tory leadership, the "tipping point" is an idea whose time has come SHOULD...bet that before too long the words "tipping point" will have been discreetly dropped...leadership embraced the concept of the "tipping point" with something like the fervour with...
- Living the "tipping point": concurrent teacher leader and principal preparation.
- Magazine article from: Education Hambright, W. Grant Franco, Myra Suzanne December 22, 2008 700+ words
...associated training as being at a "tipping point," a reference to Malcom Gladwell's (2000) book, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a...this shared leadership may be a tipping point for future development in principal...
- Group benefits tipping point could help advisers satisfy clients.
- Newspaper article from: Employee Benefit Adviser December 1, 2007 700+ words
...being dissatisfied to true satisfaction. The tipping point What is the motivational technique that takes...dissatisfaction directly to satisfaction? It is the tipping point. The tipping point creates more sales faster. It allows sellers...
- Big tipper: The Tipping Point launched Malcolm Gladwell to fame. Will his new...
- Magazine article from: W Hong, Catherine January 1, 2005 700+ words
...The New Yorker and the author of The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big...s his follow-up to 2000's The Tipping Point, a hard-to-categorize blend of...spread and then suddenly take off. Tipping Point earned Gladwell a reported $1.5...
- Rochester-based Tipping Point Media unveils new site
- Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Rochester, NY) Brighid Leavy July 31, 2009 700+ words
Tipping Point Media recently launched an upgraded...comes to the new and expanded ways Tipping Point can manage other companies' Web sites...new tools for outreach, both for Tipping Point and its customers. The company...
