by Kare Anderson | Apr 20, 2016 | behavior, community, contagion, Customer, influence, Persuasion, Play, Research, social shopping, Visual
As you’re walking down your city street you see an unmanned kiosk, stocked with bottles of tea. A sign invites you to “Take a bottle. Leave a dollar.” What would you do? Would you pay for one, and be curious enough to stay and watch what others do? Many did...
by Kare Anderson | Feb 3, 2016 | love, Speaker/Audience, Teach, Visual
She’d been fidgeting for some while. Suddenly, she turned and started talking to me. For two hours we’d sat silently, side-by-side at the airport gate, waiting for our small commuter airplane. Leaning on the narrow metal armrest that divided our hard seats, she...
by Kare Anderson | Jul 9, 2015 | Collective Memory, Visual
To instantly imprint your key concept on others’ minds, create a visual representation of it, recommends Denise Brosseau, in Ready to Be a Thought Leader? For greater impact, alter an already famous visual framework to display your core idea. Here’s two examples of...
by Kare Anderson | Aug 6, 2013 | behavior, Book, Visual
When asked how he managed to write such gripping horror novels, Stephen King responded, “I cut out the boring stuff,” and so can you. It takes a tenth of a second to form an impression. So imagine how difficult it is to hold others’ interest for even five minutes as...
by Kare Anderson | Feb 3, 2012 | Connecting, Likeability, Visual
“Your face is my map to your life.” ~ Harry Houdini, magician We are all literally and unwittingly two-faced. To learn more about how you present yourself to the world and about your underlying, more “private” feelings, you just have to look...
by Kare Anderson | Jan 14, 2012 | behavior, conference, Connecting, image, influence, Speaker/Audience, Visual
I am gratified by the 249 comments to this post I wrote for Harvard Business Review and seek your specific tips on quotability, the first step to connecting in this increasingly complex, information-flooded, and connected world: You can feel the tension in the...
