by Kare Anderson | Jun 20, 2019 | Article, behavior, mutuality matters, partnering
Probably the last thing the crowd waiting in line outside the movie theatre was expecting was the serious-faced high school drama students walking towards them with outstretched arms holding silver platters, and asking, “Would you want a Wonderbar?” then breaking out...
by Kare Anderson | Jun 19, 2019 | Article, behavior, Friendship
Humor sometimes 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...
by Kare Anderson | Jun 6, 2019 | Article, behavior, Caring, Choice, collaboration, Collective Clout, Connecting
Charles Plumb was a U.S. Navy jet pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb ejected and parachuted into enemy hands. He was captured and spent six years in a communist Vietnamese prison. He survived the...
by Kare Anderson | Jun 5, 2019 | Article, behavior, Co-Create, Collective Intelligence, Connecting
“We are not only ‘bowling alone,“ suggests Stanford professor, Jeffrey Pfeffer, “We are increasingly working alone.” Yet we still long for meaningful work and a sense of belonging – and individuals and organizations that support those very human desires are more...
by Kare Anderson | May 26, 2019 | Article
Dusk settled coolly over the misty emerald vineyards in Napa Valley one fall evening. Through the window, I gazed wistfully at a thin stream of bittersweet chocolate sauce a waiter was ladling high over a raspberry-colored cake a the table of a hand-holding couple,...
by Kare Anderson | May 26, 2019 | Article
Here’s to living a greater life and accomplishing greater things together than we can on our own: “It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else’s private world with our own. “ ~ Joyce Carol Oates...
