by Kare Anderson | Feb 1, 2014 | Humor, Quotable, Speaker/Audience
“Proofreading your peppers is a matter of the the utmost impotence.” Mortified by some of the mistakes you’ve made in writing and overlooked when re-reading? In a droll stand-up act TaylorMali covers many of the most common, sometimes Freudian slips....
by Kare Anderson | Aug 17, 2013 | behavior, Book, Choice
In the longest study of what led men to live happily and successfully to a ripe old age, guess what trait they were most likely to have in common? The lives of 268 men who entered Harvard College in 1937 were tracked for seventy-two years in The Harvard Study of...
by Kare Anderson | Jul 17, 2013 | behavior, Book, Connecting, Cooperation, Friendship, Give Back
Co-author Adam Rifkin “No gesture is too small when done with gratitude,” wrote Oprah Winfrey. After a decade of research for his best selling book, Give and Take, Wharton professor of management, Adam Grant said this powerfully simple practice was his favorite idea....
by Kare Anderson | May 19, 2013 | behavior, Collective Intelligence, Connecting, contagion
AP. IRS. Benghazi. Rather than jumping into the heated battle of competing narratives about Obama’s three “scandals” or ignoring this high-stakes story, follow it for insights on how to influence by labeling. Notice, for example, how the “scandal” label has stuck and...
by Kare Anderson | Jan 31, 2013 | Miscellaneous
LaRae Quy, Co-author It’s disconcerting to hear that there are an estimated 300 active serial killers in the U.S. That’s part of the chilling premise of the popular, sometimes violent new TV show, The Following. Serial killers, led by a psychopath, manage to find a...