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 | Jun 11, 2019 | Co-Create, Collective Intelligence, mutuality matters, SmartPartnering, social shopping
Taxi Mike, Geek Squad and Vanderbilt University Medical Center take the same successful approach to stand out from their competition and boost sales, and you can too. Like you, they realize that traditional selling is dead in our digital world. Potential buyers can...
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 | Nov 15, 2018 | behavior, Collective Intelligence, mutuality matters, SmartPartnering
One Christmas you could step inside the historic Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco and be swept into a sumptuous holiday scene that includes a towering Christmas tree and a two-story-high Victorian gingerbread house. Yet sadly, like most other businesses that want to...
by Kare Anderson | Sep 19, 2015 | partnering, SmartPartnering
Here’s three real-life, partner-based success stories to show you how to attract more customers while spending less on promotion via apt partnerships that benefit all parties. When you’ve read these examples consider how you can adapt these approaches to...
by Kare Anderson | Feb 2, 2015 | mutuality matters, SmartPartnering
Are more of your most retold stories anchored by positively or negatively felt incidents? Those who are most resilient, energetic, caring and involved with others tend to link their stories to redemptive themes. The role you most often play in the stories you tell...
