by Kare Anderson | Dec 18, 2017 | behavior, Connecting
He takes a stupid stand. (Translation: he hit my hot button.) My first response is to dislike him. (Apparently that’s a universal reaction.) My distaste shows on my face and in my tone, despite my attempt to cover my feelings in a cloak of civility. Even friends...
by Kare Anderson | Nov 29, 2017 | behavior, Book, Collective Intelligence, mutuality matters
1. Two Ways to Turn an Insult Into Opportunity to Bring Out Their Better Side • In Split-Second Persuasion, Kevin Dutton recalls a story in a London newspaper of “an elderly Afro-Caribbean man traveling home from work on a bus. At one bus stop a drunk guy got on and...
by Kare Anderson | Nov 13, 2017 | behavior, Collective Intelligence, influence
David Phillips was rushing up and down the supermarket aisles within seconds after seeing Healthy Choice’s “Early Bird Special.” He bought up all their 90-cent soups in the store. Then he raced over to a discount outlet to get all the brand’s 25-cent chocolate pudding...
by Kare Anderson | Nov 12, 2017 | behavior, Connecting, influence
As an employee, one of the best ways to grow your personal brand is to strengthen relationships with your organization’s key stakeholders and unexpected outside allies. Here are four methods to enable you to become a valued ally: 1. To prove you can actually be...
by Kare Anderson | Nov 5, 2017 | behavior, Collective Intelligence
When told to tackle the widespread child malnutrition in Vietnam in 1990 as an employee of Save the Children, Jerry and Monique Sternin could easily have become overwhelmed. Plus the country’s foreign minister told them, “You have six months to make a difference.”...
by Kare Anderson | Sep 27, 2017 | behavior, Choice
Within seconds, an expert can look at a fake painting and know it is not the work of a master. So wrote Malcolm Gladwell in his book, Blink. How? Because the expert’s gut feeling is “perfectly rational.” Not so, writes Robert A. Burton, M.D.in his book, On Being...
