by Kare Anderson | Apr 8, 2014 | behavior
Writing of her secret life as a prostitute, a blogger with the pseudonym Belle de Jour had a backstory worthy of a movie script. In fact it was turned into a Showtime TV series. She wanted to have a satisfying next chapter of her life story so she wrote about it. You...
by Kare Anderson | Jul 28, 2013 | behavior, Book, cause, Choice, Co-Create, Sharing
What does the New England Patriots’ “rabid” fans’ active sharing mid-game comments via immersive Wi-Fi have in common with Peabody hotel guests’ avid videoing and picture-snapping of the daily duck walk? Or parents standing in front a large store wall of bewildering...
by Kare Anderson | May 5, 2013 | behavior, Book, Caring, Connecting
She’d been fidgeting for some while. Suddenly, she turned and started talking to me. For two hours we’d sat silently, side-by-side at the airport gate, waiting for our small commuter airplane. Leaning on the narrow metal armrest that divided our seats, she looked...
by Kare Anderson | Apr 29, 2013 | behavior, Caring, Choice, Collective Memory, community
1. Adopt the Counter-intuitive Approach to Becoming Well-Liked Legend has it that British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli and his political rival William Gladstone had a date with the same woman on different nights. When asked her impression of the two men, she said,...
by Kare Anderson | Aug 18, 2012 | Book, Co-Create, collaboration, Connecting
Remember how the jury consultant, played by Gene Hackman, attempted to bribe jurors in the movie Runaway Jury? It seems that jurors can be swayed by much less – by the same cues that affect us all in other settings. Here’s how. A college professor of Jayson Zoller...