by Kare Anderson | Mar 8, 2020 | behavior, Caring, Choice, Collective Intelligence, Connecting, Friendship, Give Back, inspiration, Likeability, mutuality matters
Joe Lee was sitting at a table, rapidly counting rain jackets in a small room somewhere above the sumptuous lobby of the Jamaican hotel where I was to speak at a global corporate conference the next morning. I did not know who he was then, although he looked familiar....
by Kare Anderson | Dec 12, 2019 | Article, behavior, Caring, community, Connecting, contagion, entertainment, Friendship, Likeability, Listening, mutuality, Play, Sharing
One memorable early December some startled neighbors who were out walking by our home when we were, asked why we were carrying a fully-decorated Christmas tree up our steep uphill street in Sausalito, towards our home. Upon hearing our story, Martin, Jim, Ingrid,...
by Kare Anderson | Oct 7, 2019 | behavior, Caring, Friendship, Likeability, mutuality matters
Kindness is often unspoken. “An eye can threaten like a loaded and leveled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. At another time, Emerson wrote,...
by Kare Anderson | Sep 26, 2019 | behavior, Caring, Connecting, Friendship, inspiration, Likeability, Networking, speaking
“He’s such a good, smart player and a clutch player,” said S.F. Giants manager, Bruce Bochy, in describing Marco Scutaro after last night’s pennant-winning game in the soggy rain here in S.F. What part of that praise is most memorable? Like Scutaro’s...
by Kare Anderson | Sep 12, 2019 | Caring
Your attentive glance, warm nod and early smile. How much do such behaviors affect others? Enough to surprise researchers. When students in a study watch even brief (two, five or 10 second) glimpses of strangers expressing these positive actions on soundless video...
by Kare Anderson | Sep 3, 2019 | behavior, Caring, Connecting, Humor
If you make a bulls-eye out of someone weaker, particularly if you initiate the attack, you look like a bully. And rather than getting upset, consider yourself lucky when someone makes you a target first. Because, as Isaac Asimov observed, “For a humane person, the...
