by Kare Anderson | Jun 9, 2012 | behavior, Book, Caring
When you feel affronted pause before responding and recall this French proverb: “Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble.” Here’s one mighty helpful reason why. Whatever we praise we encourage to flourish. Unfortunately there’s a damaging flip side....
by Kare Anderson | May 31, 2012 | behavior, Book, Friendship
George O’Leary’s lies cost him the Notre Dame coach’s job in 2001 and lying about his resume cost Yahoo CEO, Scott Thompson his job. Yet how common is lying? Truth One How often do most of us lie? About every 10 minutes. Not you, of course, which may...
by Kare Anderson | May 28, 2012 | behavior, Book, Collective Intelligence, Connecting
How We Tell Others Who We Are On this Memorial Day weekend, what are we signaling when we flood Facebook with slogans and images of salutes to our troops and the “Likes” that follow? Certainly we intend to honor soldiers who serve our country, yet there’s more to this...
by Kare Anderson | May 26, 2012 | behavior, Book, Choice, Connecting, love
They don’t listen. Some women are nodding as they read this and some men feel prickles of irritation. And what do men most resent about women other than not enough, well, you know? Women try to change (“improve”) their man. You’ve probably experienced, first hand, a...
by Kare Anderson | May 13, 2012 | behavior, Book, Co-Create, collaboration, Collective Intelligence
“We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action,” wrote Clay Shirky. “Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up,” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. noted long ago. Yet to fully benefit from these insights...
