by Kare Anderson | May 13, 2012 | behavior, Book, Co-Create, collaboration, Collective Intelligence
“We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action,” wrote Clay Shirky. “Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up,” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. noted long ago. Yet to fully benefit from these insights...
by Kare Anderson | Aug 21, 2011 | behavior, Book, collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Connecting, Friendship, Listening, Sharing
Odd things can happen when hanging out with those who don’t act right, like you. I got unexpected insights when, with two friends, I walked through the Steins Collection of paintings by Matissse, Picasso and other avant-garde painters in bohemian Paris. In most every...
by Kare Anderson | May 7, 2011 | behavior, Book, Caring, collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Leadership, Learning, Likeability
In a New Yorker cartoon, a bored-looking couple are sitting apart on a couch, facing a smiling therapist who says, “Any healthy relationship requires fundamental acting skills.” Clearly the Michelangelo Effect is not in play. Couples who affirm and support each...
by Kare Anderson | Nov 2, 2010 | Co-Create, collaboration, Collective Intelligence, CrowdSource, Customer, Learning, Local, Peer2Peer
Whether you’re on a project team, party-planning or seeking customers’ input to improve your product you have more chance of success with the right collaborative tools. Often, the trouble is finding the best methods or tools when you need them. Here’s a shareable list...
by Kare Anderson | Oct 10, 2010 | Book, collaboration, Collective Clout, community, Local, non-profit
“I had a woman in Idaho tell me that her options for employment went from one job to hundreds because of her ability to work from home after receiving broadband,” said DigitalBridge founder, Kelley Dunne. In partnership with others including Internet providers he...
by Kare Anderson | Sep 8, 2010 | Book, Caring, Co-Create, collaboration, Collective Intelligence
“The bottom-up world is to be the great theme of this century.” ~ Matt Ridley Nobody can know everything, nor do everything well. Yet you can know someone who does – or know somebody who knows somebody who does. And that may be the secret to staying...