While millions of people have read Malcolm Gladwell’s books, his ideas have had particular resonance with today’s business leaders. As Fast Company magazine said of The New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author, “Gladwell and his ideas have reached a tipping point of their own. “This month, Malcolm Gladwell Collected was published as a boxed set offering three iconic books that have deeply influenced managers over the past decade: The Tipping Point , Blink , and Outliers . In October, Wharton management professor Peter Cappelli and Gladwell were named to HR Magazine’s Top 20 Most Influential International Thinkers of 2011. Cappelli recently spoke with Gladwell by phone about why Gladwell is an “academic groupie,” the inconvenient truths that can spring from scholarly research, and his book in progress. Gladwell also reflected on how important decisions — like going to war or dealing with today’s economy — might be dealt with differently if we were to draw on the “extraordinary wisdom” of universities.…