MIT Sloan Management Review

Innovation doesn’t just come from the geniuses who come up with completely original ideas. Instead, it’s tweakers like the engineers in the British Industrial Revolution and Apple’s Steve Jobs who take existing ideas and turn them into something better.

Fortune has posted an interesting interview with author Malcolm Gladwell, known for his books The Tipping Point and Blink. Gladwell's new book Outliers: The Story of Success -- to be released next week — delves into what makes extremely successful people perform so well.