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GPS Reading List

GPS READING BLOG Check out some books and articles that Fareed and his guests are reading this week: BOOK OF THE WEEK The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge for Strategic Investing by Ian Bremmer and Preston Keat. The authors examine how global political risks such as government changes, terrorism, and war, can affect the business world. They provide methods to help corporations and global firms to understand and manage political risk. It is a fascinating look at how to read an ever-changing geo-political landscape. OUR GUESTS RECOMMEND... PEGGY NOONAN, author of "Patriotic Grace" The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor edited by Sally Fitzgerald. "The author was thinking constantly about God and writing, which she experienced as a vocation and as part of her purpose for living on earth. It's humorous, unpretentious and shows that she knew how to suffer -- but she also knew how to own it." JON MEACHAM, author of "American Lion" The Lords of

'Tipping Point' author looks at 'outliers'

Why are some people amazingly successful -- and other people with the same intelligence or abilities just part of the crowd?

Fortune: Secrets of their success

In the business world, managing talent is one of those topics that are both overanalyzed and misunderstood. What separates the legendary CEO from the chronically dissatisfied cubicle dweller?

CNNMoney: A green business tipping point?

Where are we, exactly, in the trajectory of green business? Things seem to have changed decidedly in the past six to twelve months, as more and more companies do more and more things. But what should we make of it?

Fortune: Bestselling Wonks Square Off

Last year Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink, blurbed economist Steven Levitt and co-writer Stephen Dubner's Freakonomics. Then the newbie blogger got one too many questions about whether Levitt's t...

What's Next?

Speculating on how we're going to be living in 2020 is best left to the futurists and to science fiction; instead, TIME's "What's Next?" feature offers a sneak peak at the technologies that are just around the corner, and at the trends, events and people that will matter in 2006. And it explores how some of America's finest minds contemplate and plan for the immediate future.

What about the hair?

In the picture that accompanied Malcolm Gladwell's 2000 book, "The Tipping Point," he has close-cropped hair. The picture of the author from "Blink," however, shows him with a broad, Afro-like hairstyle.

Think fast

Malcolm Gladwell is a science writer, not a rock star. But you'd be forgiven if your first impression is that of the latter.

FSB: The Brain Trust You can't put them on your staff (unfortunately), but you can put their best new ideas to

If you could assemble the world's most perfect board of directors, whom would you put on it? You'd probably want some theoreticians from the business schools, a venture capitalist or two, maybe a s...

Fortune: Bookshelf

In City of God (Random House), we learn that Einstein "had a habit of calling God the Old One." Posted on this message board of a novel, this incidental fact falls between a pot-smoking priest turn...

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