by Kare Anderson | Jun 2, 2015 | behavior, Caring, Co-Create, Collective Intelligence, Connecting
After a priest moved to a new parish he approached his superior to ask, “Would you mind if I smoked while praying?” and was, not surprisingly, turned down. Even if you, too, are an ardent non-smoker, it is wise to learn how to ask in a way that enables...
by Kare Anderson | May 27, 2015 | behavior, Collective Intelligence, Connecting
A few years ago, DisneyWorld executives were wondering what most captured the attention of toddlers and infants at their theme park and hotels in Orlando, Florida. So they hired me and a cultural anthropologist to observe them as they passed by all the costumed cast...
by Kare Anderson | Jun 26, 2014 | behavior, Book, Collective Intelligence, Connecting
We are overly confident about our capacity to read other people, even our spouses. Trying to “detect the emotion someone is feeling by looking at a picture of their face or looking into someone’s eyes” (two common mind reading tests) actually worsens our accuracy,...
by Kare Anderson | May 26, 2014 | Caring, Choice, Collective Intelligence, Give Back, Miscellaneous
“The way to get someone to like you immediately is to find a commonality. Almost any commonality, no matter how trivial – a shared alma mater, an interest in running, a love of dogs – will get the ball rolling,” Influence author, Robert Cialdini told Reinventing...
by Kare Anderson | Feb 21, 2014 | behavior, cause, Collective Intelligence, community
What fervent belief does Vaishnavi Maganti, an 11th grader and Indian Impact brand ambassador in Hyderabad, share with Jeremiah Owyang, Crowd Companies’ Chief Catalyst and David Batstone, Not For Sale founder? An ardent belief that leveraging best talents with...
by Kare Anderson | Dec 3, 2013 | Co-Create, Collective Intelligence, contagion, entertainment, image, partnering, Sharing, SmartPartnering
Walk inside the famous Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco and you’ll be immediately swept into a sumptuous holiday scene that includes a giant Christmas tree and a two-story-high Victorian gingerbread house. Yet sadly, like most other businesses that want to...
