by Kare Anderson | Nov 25, 2020 | behavior, Caring, Collective Clout, Conflict, Connecting, Give Back, Likeability, Listening, mutuality
Perhaps one of the most vulnerable of moments is when someone criticizes you-especially if you are a government professional who is supposed to serve the public and may face more criticism than many other professionals but fewer options for how to react. Further, you...
by Kare Anderson | Mar 21, 2020 | Article, behavior, Connecting, influence, Leadership, Likeability, Values
Perhaps one of the most vulnerable of moments is when someone criticizes you. If the person who criticizes you knows you well, and if she makes their comments in front of other people, she can cut deep. The scalpel of her comments can be surgically rapid and close to...
by Kare Anderson | Mar 8, 2020 | behavior, Caring, Choice, Collective Intelligence, Connecting, Friendship, Give Back, inspiration, Likeability, mutuality matters
Joe Lee was sitting at a table, rapidly counting rain jackets in a small room somewhere above the sumptuous lobby of the Jamaican hotel where I was to speak at a global corporate conference the next morning. I did not know who he was then, although he looked familiar....
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 7, 2019 | behavior, Caring, Friendship, Likeability, mutuality matters
Kindness is often unspoken. “An eye can threaten like a loaded and leveled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. At another time, Emerson wrote,...
by Kare Anderson | Oct 1, 2019 | behavior, Co-Create, influence, inspiration, Leadership, Likeability, mutuality matters
Rather than letting more days rush by why not practice ways to become more deeply connected in each of your encounters with others? When Showing Competence Can Cut Us Off From Others Ironically, the more successful we are in proving our competence, the greater the...
