by Kare Anderson | Dec 25, 2011 | behavior, Book, Choice, Likeability
Years ago a candidate for California Superintendant of Schools repeatedly insinuated that his opponent was lying on her business tax returns and had an affair with a student intern. His charges were immediately disputed by her accountant, the student and several...
by Kare Anderson | Dec 18, 2011 | Caring, Choice, Conflict, Connecting, Give Back, inspiration, Likeability, Listening, love, Sharing
Holidays are times of great loving and loneliness and we often don’t know who is experiencing which. For many it is a bit of both. For us all this can be a prime time for kindness, sometimes by sharing what we have. And kindness is often unspoken. “An eye can threaten...
by Kare Anderson | Dec 16, 2011 | behavior, Choice, conference, Friendship, Give Back, Likeability
After a priest moved to a new parish he approached his superior one afternoon to ask, “Would you mind if I smoked while praying?” and was, not surprisingly, turned down. Yet how one makes a request has a huge impact on whether it will be granted. For...
by Kare Anderson | Dec 5, 2011 | Book, Choice, Conflict, Connecting
Wincing I glanced down. It hadn’t taken much to make that small blister appear in the hollow of my palm, that most tender of places on one’s hand. It’s my writing hand where a thin flap of skin now folded back. I’d just planted 30 daffodil bulbs in my garden but had...
by Kare Anderson | Sep 2, 2011 | behavior, Book, Choice, Collective Intelligence
Coincidences are often signs of synchronicity, yet they aren’t as obvious as some you may see. Unless you are looking for patterns. Then you can notice what you are choosing to notice. Ironically I discovered Daniel Johnson’s article online about meaningful...
by Kare Anderson | Jun 12, 2011 | behavior, Book, Choice
Mike wasn’t aware that we were closely watching him as he strode into the pool table showroom but he was the ninth unwitting participant in our experiment. He glanced at the sign “Three Most Popular Models” that hung above an ornately carved, antique pool table,...
