by Kare Anderson | Dec 30, 2009 | behavior, collaboration, Collective Memory
To jumpstart your new year in these roiling times, consider this: “When the economy tanks it’s natural to think of yourself first. You have a family to feed and a mortgage to pay. Getting more appears to be the order of business. It turns out that...
by Kare Anderson | Mar 9, 2008 | Book, Collective Intelligence, Collective Memory
Within seconds, an expert can look at a fake painting and know it is not the work of a master. So wrote Malcolm Gladwell in his book, Blink. How? Because the expert’s gut feeling is “perfectly rational.” Not so, writes Robert Burton (who also lives here in...
by Kare Anderson | Jan 22, 2008 | Book, Collective Memory, inspiration, Media, speaking
Driving along the Marin Headlands today, I switched radio channels away from the unfolding news of the stock market “panic.” Within minutes I had to pull to the side of the road. Listening to a recording of Barack Obama’s sermon yesterday at Ebenezer Baptist Church,...
by Kare Anderson | Jan 16, 2008 | Collective Memory, Learning, Research
…looks like you, research shows. So if you are leaning toward one political (or marital?) candidate or have not yet decided, here’s how you might be influenced. “Morphing faces”- based research demonstrates your instinctive tendency to like the person who looks...
by Kare Anderson | Dec 21, 2007 | Co-Create, Collective Memory
The lofty, cracked Liberty Bell; the starkly beckoning Vietnam Veterans Memorial; the made-it- personal, traveling AIDS quilt and New York’s “Wall of The Missing.” For many Americans, these images are a deep part of our shared memory. But how have they actually...
