by Kare Anderson | May 31, 2012 | behavior, Book, Friendship
George O’Leary’s lies cost him the Notre Dame coach’s job in 2001 and lying about his resume cost Yahoo CEO, Scott Thompson his job. Yet how common is lying? Truth One How often do most of us lie? About every 10 minutes. Not you, of course, which may...
by Kare Anderson | Apr 15, 2008 | behavior, Book, collaboration, Friendship, Learning, Research
When we first fall for someone, we become enamored with everything about that person. We gush. We create things to commemorate their specialness. We feel so connected, we fill in the blanks about what we don’t know. We assume we will like the rest of that person just...
by Kare Anderson | Mar 9, 2008 | Book, Collective Intelligence, Collective Memory
Within seconds, an expert can look at a fake painting and know it is not the work of a master. So wrote Malcolm Gladwell in his book, Blink. How? Because the expert’s gut feeling is “perfectly rational.” Not so, writes Robert Burton (who also lives here in...