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David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
by Malcolm Gladwell
It's always fun listening to Malcolm Gladwell expound on his well-researched, if selectively anecdotal theories (do get the audio version, Gladwell is a masterful orator.) And if you're playing the Leadership Books With Martin Luther King Stories Drinking Game, you get to take a drink. The book opens with an in-depth analysis of the actual David and Goliath story, demonstrating that the two were a little more equally matched than popularly believed. We then hear stories of underdogs and the powerful -- if not always good -- work that they are able to accomplish by playing by their own rules. I've started bringing total outsiders into meetings as a result of this book so that I can get basketball-coach-who-has-never-played-basketball thinking into the room. It works.