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The Tipping Point

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tipping_Point

Ervin Laszlo talks about this "tipping point" as it already has happened. Joe Sugarman, was the one who thought me the 80/20 rule. Here are

The three rules of epidemics

Gladwell describes the "three rules of epidemics" (or the three "agents of change") in the tipping points of epidemics.

• "The Law of the Few", or, as Gladwell states, "The success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts."^[4] According to Gladwell, economists call this the "80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the 'work' will be done by 20 percent of the participants."^[5] These people are described in the following ways:

• Connectors are the people who "link us up with the world ... people with a special gift for bringing the world together."^[6] They are "a handful of people with a truly extraordinary knack [... for] making friends and acquaintances". ^[7] He characterizes these individuals as having social networks of over one hundred people. To illustrate, Gladwell cites the following examples: the midnight ride of Paul Revere, Milgram's experiments in the small world problem, the "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" trivia game, Dallas businessman Roger Horchow, and Chicagoan Lois Weisberg, a person who understands the concept of the weak tie. Gladwell attributes the social success of Connectors to "their ability to span many different worlds [... as] a function of something intrinsic to their personality, some combination of curiosity, self-confidence, sociability, and energy."^[8]

• Mavens are "information specialists", or "people we rely upon to connect us with new information."^[9] They accumulate knowledge, especially about the marketplace, and know how to share it with others. Gladwell cites Mark Alpert as a prototypical Maven who is "almost pathologically helpful", further adding, "he can't help himself".^[10] In this vein, Alpert himself concedes, "A Maven is someone who wants to solve other people's problems, generally by solving his own".^[11] According to Gladwell, Mavens start "word-of-mouth epidemics"^[12] due to their knowledge, social skills, and ability to communicate. As Gladwell states, "Mavens are really information brokers, sharing and trading what they know".^[13]

• Salesmen are "persuaders", charismatic people with powerful negotiation skills. They tend to have an indefinable trait that goes beyond what they say, which makes others want to agree with them. Gladwell's examples include California businessman Tom Gau and news anchor Peter Jennings, and he cites several studies about the persuasive implications of non-verbal cues, including a headphone nod study (conducted by Gary Wells of the University of Alberta and Richard Petty of the University of Missouri) and William Condon's cultural microrhythms study.

WOW! my1st born, David is 12 year old David!

“Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.” (Scroll VI)
Some people just want their circumstances to be different, however, success does not just happen - happiness does not just happen – both are intentionally created. http://www.ogmandino.com/

Am building a road to a war-less world. Please join at www.worldshift2012.tv and www.worldshift2012.org as well as www.clubofbudapest.org and thanks for signing the Declaration, Peace, Pt

After 12 years in this forsaken and by now, I tend to believe also a cursed land, watching things deteriorate and realize that there must be better and more to our lives than this. So, off to the adventure we go. David, is getting the cast taken off today and is really looking forward to a better and a more peaceful, less stressful environment after this.Am trying to deliver it for him.

Yoko Ono should be here and now. Speaking Here & Now , didn't know Baba Ram Dass had a stroke and a Movie???

Ram Dass - The Movie

Ram Dass Fierce Grace is a 2002 American biographical film, directed by Micky Lemle. It tells the story of Dr. Richard Alpert's transformation from Harvard Psychology Professor to spiritual student/devotee and back again to teacher in spite of his debilitating stroke. It was named by Newsweek as one of the Top Five Non-fiction Films of 2002.

As I wonder out LOUD and LOUDER why not name it

The John Lennon University

and get the GAME OVER ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon
He realy is everything that we would want the world to be. And he had/has Q factor!!!

My whole life was around him anyways as was for most whom I knew. At 20 at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, in Montreal I served him breakfast in bed. At 40 with candle in hand cried when news reached us ...he was shot.
Now, at 60, reborn with Yoko, for the www.GlobalShift2012.tv and Club of Budapest.

This past, year and a half, have thought me to be more proactive and less procrastinating about and around all. Ervin Laszlo was and still is my BIG ONE !! As far as we believe at the WS2012, he is "our great Hope" to somehow show us , tell us, clearly what and where we should go and do.

Shortly I hope that Rolph Payet will come and join our efforts here and in London to secure a university for Seychelles. Oh, OK, not just another UNIVERSITY......but a unique example of what the universities of the future should look like. All the tools, techniques even teachers are ready to jump. The connections with dozens of universities begun, and for now , we wait.