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The Most Intolerant Wins
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The Most Intolerant Wins

The Dominance of the Stubborn Minority

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim N. Taleb, 2015
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In his latest essay, best-selling author and academic Nassim Nicholas Taleb challenges commonly held assumptions about who facilitates societal change. His provocative theory of “minority rule” argues that intransigent minority groups, not majority consensus, drive change. While he fails to examine the damage that the minority rule can wreak, his thesis is compelling, convincing and supremely relevant. getAbstract recommends Taleb’s insightful take on transformation to anyone who wants a fresh perspective about how change happens and who really alters societies.

Take-Aways

  • The “minority rule” demonstrates that it takes just a small number of inflexible people to change society.
  • The minority rule depends on an asymmetry in choices: an intransigent minority and a flexible majority.
  • “Renormalization” is the process by which a minority rule moves into the mainstream of wider society.

About the Author

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an author, scholar and statistician. A review in the Sunday Times called his book The Black Swan “one of the twelve most influential books since World War II.”

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