Malcolm Gladwell is the author. It's on the cultural dynamic of success, the factors that people never include in their 'rags to riches' tales about people.

For instance, the majority of Canada's youth all-star hockey teams are born in just four months: January, February, March, and April.

Astrology?

No, its the age range category that youngsters who want to play hockey are placed in. Each year group of youngsters go from January 1 to December 31. So the children born at the start of the year are larger and more coordinated than those who are born later, and thus they are perceived as more talented and get more special attention and extra play.

It has chapters on racial and cultural information that is amazing. The chapter on airplane crashes blew me away. The majority of crashes that are pilot fault come from countries that demand the highest level of deferment to authority. That deferment tends to cause numerous mis-communications in the cockpit. The solutions that the South Korean airlines found (in additions to others) was to make their pilots speak only English in the cockpit.