by Kare Anderson | Mar 26, 2008 | Book, Co-Create, entertainment, Friendship, Meetings
The playboy bunny I was “asked” to interview said she needed an automatic, rather than a stick shift on the Corvette her suger daddy was giving here. It was the only way she could sip her slurpy while driving. At that moment I wondered how I was going to...
by Kare Anderson | Mar 14, 2008 | Book, cause, non-profit, partnering, Peer2Peer
One morning over his breakfast cereal, life forever changed for a twelve-year old Canadian boy. He flipped through the pages of his morning newspaper to find his favorite cartoons. Instead he was stopped by a headline, “Battled Child Labour, Boy 12...
by Kare Anderson | Mar 11, 2008 | Book, collaboration, Collective Clout, Collective Intelligence
Just weeks before her wedding, Ivanna got out of a cab in New York, leaving her T-Mobile Sidekick cell phone behind. Her friend sent emails to the Sidekick account offering a reward for the phone’s return. No answer. So Ivanna bought a new phone. When she activated...
by Kare Anderson | Mar 9, 2008 | Book, Collective Intelligence, Collective Memory
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 Burton (who also lives here in...
by Kare Anderson | Feb 4, 2008 | Book, Collective Intelligence, Cooperation
… consider this. People rise to power being ruthless and manipulative. That’s a popular view anyway. Yet some studies show, ”that leaders often emerge from communities not because they are ruthless, but because they are skilled at managing social...
by Kare Anderson | Jan 22, 2008 | Book, Collective Memory, inspiration, Media, speaking
Driving along the Marin Headlands today, I switched radio channels away from the unfolding news of the stock market “panic.” Within minutes I had to pull to the side of the road. Listening to a recording of Barack Obama’s sermon yesterday at Ebenezer Baptist Church,...
