by Kare Anderson | Jul 13, 2013 | behavior, Book, Quotable
While the beguiling, expensive TV car ads featuring Shaquille O’Neal are warm and memorable, a cheaply made public service announcement I heard on the radio years ago has stuck in my mind as much. I heard it when I turned on the radio in my rental car. A...
by Kare Anderson | Mar 21, 2013 | behavior, Book, Caring, contagion, decisionmaking
Breandan and Emma, the couple up the hill from me in Sausalito have been married 54 years, they proudly told me last year. They walked, hand-in-hand past my home each morning, usually laughing, smiling and pointing out things to each other along the way. Originally...
by Kare Anderson | Mar 13, 2013 | behavior, Book
How does a news reporter morph into a paid public speaker? By stumbling around several times, in my case. That’s because Dorie Clark had not yet written Reinventing You. She could have saved me some time, effort and self-inflicted frustration. Perhaps you, too, want...
by Kare Anderson | Jan 23, 2013 | behavior, Book, Likeability, Listening, love
Dr. Pierre Mornell knew he’d hit a raw nerve when both men and women began fervently nodding during his lecture on “modern man’s main secret.” That was in 1987 yet a behavioral scientist I interviewed recently said it felt like yesterday when he sat in that agitated...
by Kare Anderson | Dec 27, 2012 | behavior, Collective Clout, Connecting
Marshall wasn’t aware that we were closely watching him as he strode into the pool table showroom but he was the ninth unwitting participant in our experiment. He glanced at the sign “Our Three Most Popular Models” that hung above an ornately carved, antique pool...