by Kare Anderson | Nov 15, 2018 | behavior, Collective Intelligence, mutuality matters, SmartPartnering
One Christmas you could step inside the historic Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco and be swept into a sumptuous holiday scene that includes a towering Christmas tree and a two-story-high Victorian gingerbread house. Yet sadly, like most other businesses that want to...
by Kare Anderson | Oct 29, 2018 | behavior, Collective Intelligence
Five Ways to Create Greater Success With Others Attract and serve unexpected allies with different talents and life and work experiences and you are more likely to gain insights that lead to your greater success – and theirs. Bad collaboration is worse than no...
by Kare Anderson | Nov 29, 2017 | behavior, Book, Collective Intelligence, mutuality matters
1. Two Ways to Turn an Insult Into Opportunity to Bring Out Their Better Side • In Split-Second Persuasion, Kevin Dutton recalls a story in a London newspaper of “an elderly Afro-Caribbean man traveling home from work on a bus. At one bus stop a drunk guy got on and...
by Kare Anderson | Nov 13, 2017 | behavior, Collective Intelligence, influence
David Phillips was rushing up and down the supermarket aisles within seconds after seeing Healthy Choice’s “Early Bird Special.” He bought up all their 90-cent soups in the store. Then he raced over to a discount outlet to get all the brand’s 25-cent chocolate pudding...
by Kare Anderson | Nov 5, 2017 | behavior, Collective Intelligence
When told to tackle the widespread child malnutrition in Vietnam in 1990 as an employee of Save the Children, Jerry and Monique Sternin could easily have become overwhelmed. Plus the country’s foreign minister told them, “You have six months to make a difference.”...
by Kare Anderson | Sep 22, 2017 | behavior, Collective Clout, Collective Intelligence
During a stadium match, several spectators yelled racist insults down at the renowned, Brazilian footballer, Barcelona’s flying fullback, Dani Alves. Capping it off, an angry spectator who had been yelling epithets threw a banana down in front of Alves as he was...