by Kare Anderson | Jan 2, 2021 | behavior, Choice, Collective Clout, Collective Intelligence, Connecting, Cooperation, CrowdSource, decisionmaking, Leadership, Networking, partnering, SmartPartnering, Social Entrepreneur, Tribe
When meeting Natasha, photographer Rick Smolan never imagined she’d be an emotional thread of continuity for his life. Human stories take unexpected turns, especially beginning in 2021 next year. I’ve got your back and you’ve got mine. That’s a mighty welcome feeling...
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 | Aug 27, 2020 | behavior, Collective Intelligence, decisionmaking, partnering, Profit
What Robert Cialdini dubbed “social proof” is a powerful way to attract involvement or another kind of support. When we think we’re out of step with our peers, “the part of our brain that registers pain shifts into overdrive,” according to Cialdini. Our herd instinct...
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 14, 2019 | behavior, decisionmaking
Ironically, both psychopaths and Tibetan monks detect deep emotions that are invisible to others. Psychopaths are much better at recognizing “those telltale signs in the gait of traumatized assault victims,” notes The Wisdom of Psychopaths author, Kevin...
by Kare Anderson | Nov 20, 2018 | Collective Intelligence, decisionmaking
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.”...
