It's been nearly 25 years since Malcolm Gladwell published "The Tipping Point," and it's still easy to catch it being read on airplanes, displayed prominently on executives' bookshelves or hear its jargon slipped into conversations. It's no surprise that a sequel was the next logical step.

In "Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering," Gladwell is rehashing and rebuilding on the concepts that he first wrote about in 2000. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it wasn't really necessary either.

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