by Kare Anderson | Aug 28, 2019 | behavior, Book, Collective Clout, Collective Intelligence
“Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike,” wrote William Butler Yeats. Hint: Become an Opportunity Maker who enables others to proudly use their best talents together on things that matter to them and you become the sought-after...
by Kare Anderson | Jun 15, 2019 | behavior, Book, Connecting, contagion
To this day I’m mortified when I see a box of chocolates. I was in the Antwerp airport, heading back to San Francisco. Before settling into a seat at my gate I bought two indulgences for the flight home, John le Carré’s Our Kind of Traitor and a box of Pierre...
by Kare Anderson | Jun 12, 2019 | behavior, Book, Connecting, Leadership, Persuasion, Quotable, speaking
The smaller the coffin, the heavier it is to carry,” Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif told CNN host Christiane Amanpour. Then he went on to describe a Taliban massacre where many children were killed. Asif didn’t try to evoke an emotion with grand...
by Kare Anderson | Apr 19, 2019 | Book, Connecting, mutuality matters
“Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike,” wrote William Butler Yeats. Hint: Become an Opportunity Maker who enables others to proudly use their best talents together on things that matter to them and you become the sought-after...
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 | Sep 17, 2017 | Article, behavior, Book
Here are some quick, sometimes surprising clues. All Jokes Come Down to One of Four Themes Anywhere in the world, all jokes can be reduced to just one of these themes, according to professor Richard Wiseman, a British psychologist who, via his LaughLab, conducted...
