"On the political level, playing off of Malcolm Gladwell's recent bestseller, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, I originally argued that the public's increasingly negative attitude toward Bush and the war in Iraq might have been nearing a tipping point, which Gladwell argues is 'that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.' Gladwell argues that sometimes fairly small, seemingly insignificant shifts can push something over that tipping point, with enormous consequences. On a political level, Katrina may have stopped one tipping point from having been reached, at least for now, while on an economic level, it could push the economy past another tipping point."
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country, including the Washington Post, USA Today, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer and Christian Science Monitor.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
