by Kare Anderson | Dec 29, 2013 | behavior, Book, Co-Create, Cooperation, decisionmaking
Scattering smashed watermelons around Stanford’s soccer field before the players arrived was just the first action that students in a class experiment took to sway athletes to wear bike helmets when cycling around campus. They also plastered posters around the field...
by Kare Anderson | Jul 17, 2013 | behavior, Book, Connecting, Cooperation, Friendship, Give Back
Co-author Adam Rifkin “No gesture is too small when done with gratitude,” wrote Oprah Winfrey. After a decade of research for his best selling book, Give and Take, Wharton professor of management, Adam Grant said this powerfully simple practice was his favorite idea....
by Kare Anderson | Apr 1, 2013 | behavior, Book, Caring, Choice, Cooperation
Tension was inevitable. The stakes were high. We all wanted to be accepted into this coveted fellowship program, yet only 20% would. After a series of intensive interviews, much depended on how we played this game. The rules were odd. Eight strangers, all...
by Kare Anderson | Jul 26, 2010 | Caring, Conflict, Cooperation, love
Partners – romantic and otherwise – tend to fight when one feels neglected or threatened. When Peter Bregman’s wife yelled from two rooms away, “at least pack the shampoo” she was feeling neglected. Recognizing which underlying feeling is being evoked helps you know...
by Kare Anderson | May 10, 2010 | behavior, Book, Conflict, Cooperation, Friendship, partnering
“’There was this joke that when the women who worked in the lab were stressed, they came in, cleaned the lab, had coffee, and bonded,” Dr. Laura Cousin Klein told Gale Berkowitz. “When the men were stressed, they holed up somewhere on their own. I...
by Kare Anderson | May 4, 2010 | behavior, Book, Connecting, Cooperation
It is the moment when people see your best side. That’s most likely to happen when you really click with a person or situation. Conversely a bad reaction can quickly spiral down into conflict, even enmity. What’s the most likely way for someone to see you at your...
