by Kare Anderson | Nov 22, 2020 | Caring, Conflict, Connecting, contagion, decisionmaking, Friendship
When I was a Wall Street Journal journalist, I was sent to cover a football game in Barcelona. Later during the game, as I sat in the stadium, I was startled to see and hear many spectators in the stadium yelling racist insults down at the renowned Brazilian...
by Kare Anderson | Dec 12, 2019 | Article, behavior, Caring, community, Connecting, contagion, entertainment, Friendship, Likeability, Listening, mutuality, Play, Sharing
One memorable early December some startled neighbors who were out walking by our home when we were, asked why we were carrying a fully-decorated Christmas tree up our steep uphill street in Sausalito, towards our home. Upon hearing our story, Martin, Jim, Ingrid,...
by Kare Anderson | Oct 4, 2019 | Article, behavior, Connecting, contagion, decisionmaking
What are the coincidences that startle you? No one in Beatrice, Nebraska, will forget what happened just prior to church choir practice on March 1, 1950. All fifteen members of the choir were due at practice at 7:30 p.m. The minister, his wife, and their daughter were...
by Kare Anderson | Jun 15, 2019 | behavior, Book, Connecting, contagion
To this day I’m mortified when I see a box of chocolates. I was in the Antwerp airport, heading back to San Francisco. Before settling into a seat at my gate I bought two indulgences for the flight home, John le Carré’s Our Kind of Traitor and a box of Pierre...
by Kare Anderson | Jun 9, 2019 | behavior, Caring, collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Connecting, contagion, Friendship, inspiration, Local, Networking, Play, SmartPartnering
The sweet scent of the narcissus plant wafts upstairs to me just like the lingering memory of my uphill neighbors, an always upbeat Irish couple in their early eighties. Stopping off on their daily walk, they knocked on my door early this morning to deliver the plant,...
by Kare Anderson | Apr 19, 2019 | behavior, Connecting, contagion, Cooperation
What did the New England Patriots ’“rabid” fans’ active sharing mid-game comments via immersive Wi-Fi have in common with Peabody hotels’ guests’ avid videoing and picture-snapping of the daily duck walk? Or parents standing in front a large store wall of bewildering...
