by Kare Anderson | Mar 13, 2013 | behavior, Book
How does a news reporter morph into a paid public speaker? By stumbling around several times, in my case. That’s because Dorie Clark had not yet written Reinventing You. She could have saved me some time, effort and self-inflicted frustration. Perhaps you, too, want...
by Kare Anderson | Mar 8, 2013 | behavior, Book, Choice, Co-Create, Collective Intelligence
We seek meaning in most any action, so we sometimes mislead ourselves. Even when simply shown circles, triangles and other geometric objects randomly moving about on a screen, we tend to give them human attributes. Then we instinctively attempt to determine what...
by Kare Anderson | Feb 18, 2013 | behavior, Book, Choice, contagion
An anger-evoking true story that’s spreading today, “Exec loses job after allegedly slapping toddler on plane,” quickly moved Dan Schawbel to write on Facebook, “The headline should read ‘Exec gets deported from America after being a complete A@& on a...
by Kare Anderson | Feb 15, 2013 | behavior, Book, Mentor
“I could not have gotten more headlines if I had murdered someone with an ax.” That’s author Ken Auletta’s characterization of the fervent, wildly divergent and huge public response Sheryl Sandberg received after her video interview for the PBS documentary MAKERS....
by Kare Anderson | Feb 10, 2013 | Book, Connecting
“All of the significant battles are waged within the self,” wrote Sheldon Kopp. Some of our biggest inside battles are changing habits to create a more meaningful, congenial life with others. Instead we instinctively, unhappily focus on: • Those who seem...
by Kare Anderson | Jan 23, 2013 | behavior, Book, Likeability, Listening, love
Dr. Pierre Mornell knew he’d hit a raw nerve when both men and women began fervently nodding during his lecture on “modern man’s main secret.” That was in 1987 yet a behavioral scientist I interviewed recently said it felt like yesterday when he sat in that agitated...
