by Kare Anderson | May 6, 2012 | behavior, Book, Caring
“When you throw mud you get dirty,” Adlai Stephenson once remarked in response to a question about whether he would criticize his opponent who was launching vicious, personal attacks against him in a political campaign. And you lose ground. Yet many politicos say...
by Kare Anderson | Apr 8, 2012 | behavior, decisionmaking
1. Don’t Get Anchored Down How would you answer these two questions? 1. Is the population of Turkey greater than 35 million? 2. What’s your best estimate of Turkey’s population? Actually the sequence of the questions contaminates your answer. If you are like...
by Kare Anderson | Feb 20, 2012 | behavior, Book
Five men are walking across the Golden Gate Bridge on an outing organized by their wives who are college friends. The women move ahead in animated conversation. One man describes the engineering involved in the bridge’s long suspension. Another points to the changing...
by Kare Anderson | Feb 14, 2012 | behavior, Caring, cause
Marie Beckinger was driving home from grocery shopping when a bank robber in a dented pickup truck streaked through a red light. He was attempting to escape a trailing police car. He struck the passenger’s side of Marie’s car where her infant, Gabriel, was buckled...
by Kare Anderson | Jan 25, 2012 | behavior, Customer
In “one fatal keystroke” Rose Zory, the Chief People Officer at Carat Media sent a “for top management only” email on the messaging managers should use when firing (oops, rightsizing) some employees. She sent that email to every single person in the company. Carat is...
by Kare Anderson | Jan 14, 2012 | behavior, conference, Connecting, image, influence, Speaker/Audience, Visual
I am gratified by the 249 comments to this post I wrote for Harvard Business Review and seek your specific tips on quotability, the first step to connecting in this increasingly complex, information-flooded, and connected world: You can feel the tension in the...
