by Kare Anderson | Sep 30, 2012 | Book, Caring, Choice, Co-Create, collaboration, Connecting
Little did Abigail Washburn know that her life would forever change after she went to a party where she heard a record of traditional folk and bluegrass singer and flatpicking guitar player, Doc Watson singing Shady Grove. She had what Frans Johansson dubs a click...
by Kare Anderson | Sep 12, 2012 | Book, Caring, cause, Choice, Collective Clout
Within minutes of taking questions, Karl Rove and Howard Dean had a largely well-informed audience deep in the weeds of their conflicting, complex facts last Monday night at our Marin Speakers Series. We watched enthralled, attempting to keep up with their swift...
by Kare Anderson | Sep 3, 2012 | behavior, Book, Choice, Connecting
Tired of the hot cross-accusations and name-calling around presidential campaign politics? Then why not jump into another hot skirmish: what’s happening between men and women? It’s already getting heated in advance of the launch of Hanna Rosin’s The End of Men and...
by Kare Anderson | Aug 6, 2012 | behavior, Book, Choice, Conflict, Connecting, decisionmaking
Ashamed as I am to admit after all these years, my instinctive reaction is to defend or retreat still kicks into gear when I feel wronged or simply slightly mistreated. When others appear to be behaving badly, we tend to sink into our own feelings, blinding ourselves...
by Kare Anderson | May 26, 2012 | behavior, Book, Choice, Connecting, love
They don’t listen. Some women are nodding as they read this and some men feel prickles of irritation. And what do men most resent about women other than not enough, well, you know? Women try to change (“improve”) their man. You’ve probably experienced, first hand, a...
by Kare Anderson | Jan 8, 2012 | behavior, Book, Choice, decisionmaking
… you may want to recognize ways to avoid such self- sabotage — not that you would need such advice, of course, yet your intelligent friends might. According to the 15 experts cited by Yale professor, Robert J. Steinberg, Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid, high...