by Kare Anderson | Nov 4, 2019 | Article, behavior, Collective Intelligence
“No gesture is too small when done with gratitude,” wrote Oprah Winfrey. After a decade of research for his best selling book, Give and Take, Wharton professor of management, Adam Grant said this powerfully simple practice was his favorite idea. It won’t cost you...
by Kare Anderson | Feb 5, 2018 | Article, behavior, Connecting
“I had a doorbell moment this week,” Patricia said to Tracy. Both have sons serving in the same Marine unit in Iraq. She is describing the fear that grabs her the moment her doorbell rings unexpectedly, thinking that the officer on the other side has come...
by Kare Anderson | Oct 26, 2012 | behavior, Book, contagion, decisionmaking
No you are not imagining it. Political insults are getting increasingly personal, widespread and intense – not just between candidates and their surrogates but amongst almost all of us at this point. Some friendships are shattering. Reputations smeared. Even formerly...
by Kare Anderson | Jul 17, 2010 | behavior, Book, Connecting
For many years my parents took what some Brits call an evening “constitutional.” They walked, hand in hand, around the neighborhood – just the two of them. Sometimes, they talked. Other evenings they said little, so I am told. Yet they always came home smiling....
by Kare Anderson | Apr 28, 2009 | Humor
Humor requires a target. If you make a bulls-eye out of someone weaker, particularly if you initiate the attack, you look like a bully. Take aim, instead, at the powerful. Or, rather than getting upset, consider yourself lucky when someone makes you a target first....
