by Kare Anderson | Sep 1, 2008 | Collective Clout, Freedom
From anger to pride, deep emotions are surfacing in this wild political season. One story sticks in my mind. That of a movie theater ticket taker in Xenia, Ohio, telling two black college students that the place was closed. Now 88 years old, P.T. Chochran told New...
by Kare Anderson | Aug 29, 2008 | Miscellaneous, Podcasts
Recession coming? Perhaps the best way to keep briefed on your profession is to attend the annual conference of your peers. Yet wouldn’t you enjoy the event more if you had a greater voice in the meeting design and formats, topics and speakers, participation and...
by Kare Anderson | Aug 28, 2008 | collaboration, Friendship
After the war, my father worked on a fire lookout station in a remote forest in Oregon. He called my mother on the (public) government phone line, asking her to marry him. Thank goodness she said yes because he took quite a ribbing from those on other lookouts who...
by Kare Anderson | Aug 28, 2008 | Co-Create, Friendship
Bill Murray said, “I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn’t make any mistakes, and you learned what...
by Kare Anderson | Aug 23, 2008 | behavior, Friendship, Give Back, Play, Podcasts
For starters, a warped sense of humor helps. When he first came from New York, shortly after college, Paul Geffner began selling handmade leather bound journals, along with a crowd of other street vendors on the sidewalk near The Embarcadero in S.F. Even then people...
