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- How Do You Want To Live Your Life Now? - by Submitted on Jan 15, 2019 from Kare AndersonTo support you on your path towards greater mental toughness, former Navy Seal and Rhodes Scholar and author of Resilience, Eric Greitens shared this with me: “If I sat down in your living room and placed a giant bag of jigsaw puzzle pieces on a table in front of you and asked you to put all of ...
Views: 1023 - How Many Personalities Are Inside You? - by Submitted on Feb 06, 2009 from Kare AndersonThat irritating co-worker you’re stuck sitting by (again!) sees a decidedly different side of you than your best friend does. That’s because you have many people inside of you (no they’re not imaginary). That’s what veteran science writer, Rita Carter discovered as she ...
Views: 1321 - How Our Work Can Become More Productive and Meaningful: 5 Ways - by Submitted on Feb 22, 2019 from Kare Anderson1. Adopt Mutual Mentoring to Accelerate Self-Organizing and Innovation: For starters, use the Salesforce1 app, Shadowr to establish a system that facilitates the connection of mentors and mentees using the Salesforce1 app, Shadowr. Then take the complimentary next step: an under-utilized, no ...
Views: 942 - How Our Work Can Become More Productive and Meaningful: 5 Ways - by Submitted on Feb 22, 2019 from Kare Anderson1. Adopt Mutual Mentoring to Accelerate Self-Organizing and Innovation: For starters, use the Salesforce1 app, Shadowr to establish a system that facilitates the connection of mentors and mentees using the Salesforce1 app, Shadowr. Then take the complimentary next step: an under-utilized, no ...
Views: 964 - How to Attract More Visibility, Apt Allies And Opportunities - by Submitted on Nov 19, 2019 from Kare AndersonShare The Story Others Want To Be In Peter Guber’s advice in Tell to Win shows how stories can build in bragging rights by creating purposeful narratives. Then you can pull others into your story because they can see a role they want to play in that purpose. In their re-telling of your story, ...
Views: 928 - How to Handle Criticism with Grace and Honesty - by Submitted on Nov 13, 2019 from Kare AndersonPerhaps 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 the bone, more damaging than ...
Views: 981 - How to Honor Someone in Ways That Uplift Many Others - by Submitted on Dec 03, 2019 from Kare AndersonAfter the priest moved to a new parish he approached his superior to ask, "Would you mind if I smoked while praying?" and was turned down. It is wise for us to learn how to ask for something in a way that enables others to agree. For example, the priest might have said, "Would you mind if I pray ...
Views: 831 - How to Pull in Greater Friendships, Adventures & Learning - by Submitted on Jun 10, 2020 from Kare AndersonFive men are walking across the Golden Gate Bridge on an outing organized by their wives who are college friends. The women moved ahead in animated conversation. One man describes the engineering involved in the bridge's long suspension. Another man points to the changing tide lines below. A ...
Views: 767 - How To Pull Others Closer And Feel Better Together - by Submitted on Oct 27, 2020 from Kare AndersonThese three true stories share a vital trait that you can adopt to boost your mood — and your value and visibility with others — as an individual and for your organization: Thief Apologizes And Returns Money To Nashville Market 11 Years Later, How Google Maps Led To the Rescue of A Los Angles ...
Views: 735 - How To Pull Others Into Your Stories and Boost In Bragging Rights - by Submitted on Nov 09, 2020 from Kare AndersonWith a warm smile on his face an elderly gentleman came up to speak to me after hearing my keynote on Ways to Live a More Meaningful Life and asked if he could tell me about an experience he’d had the previous week that made him decide not to retire for awhile after all. He told me he’d been a ...
Views: 607 - How to See A Best Path Forward By Understanding Serendipity - by Submitted on Aug 30, 2020 from Kare AndersonWe seek meaning in most any action, so we sometimes mislead ourselves. Even when shown circles, triangles and other geometric objects randomly moving about on a screen, we tend to give them human attributes. We instinctively determine what their behavior means. Such quick conclusions were ...
Views: 645 - How We Can Have Fun and Learn Faster Together - by Submitted on Jan 31, 2019 from Kare AndersonFun Way to Learn Faster Together As a kid I spent much of one summer, sitting on the curb in front of my home, watching Mike, the cute boy across the street, riding his bike on daring ramp jumps in his driveway. (My “surprise” bike wouldn’t arrive until my birthday). Then Mike would speed out ...
Views: 1034 - How We Destroy Relationships - by Submitted on Jan 23, 2019 from Kare AndersonWhen things go wrong, we tend to blind ourselves to other’s feelings. We are more likely to fall into a destructive behavioral trap. Sadly, when we do, we cannot be empathic. We weaken that human bond that’s vital to re-grouping and resilience. These blinding mindsets make us feel dumb, ...
Views: 1012 - How We See Ourselves - by Submitted on Feb 06, 2009 from Kare AndersonAt a wedding I attended last Summer on the most southern island of Greece, an American was marrying a Greek woman he met at graduate school. People traveled there from 20 countries. Of the 90 or so guests, all under 30 years of age had visited at least five countries, often for study, work or ...
Views: 1403 - How We Weaken Relationships or Strengthen Them - by Submitted on Dec 22, 2019 from Kare AndersonWhen things go wrong, we tend to blind ourselves to other’s feelings. We are more likely to fall into a destructive behavioral trap. Sadly, when we do, we cannot be empathic. We weaken that human bond that’s vital to re-grouping and resilience. These blinding mindsets make us feel dumb, ...
Views: 746 - How What Captures Your Attention May Control Your Life - by Submitted on Sep 01, 2020 from Kare AndersonSeveral years ago, DisneyWorld executives were wondering what most captured the attention of toddlers and infants at their theme park and hotels in Orlando, Florida. So they hired me and a cultural anthropologist to observe them as they passed by all the costumed cast members, animated ...
Views: 598 - How You Can Make Smarter Decisions - by Submitted on Aug 03, 2020 from Kare AndersonWe can all make wiser decisions by understanding these common mental traps we sometimes fall into: 1. The Confirming-Evidence Trap This trap is the bias that leads us to seek out information to support our existing point of view while avoiding information that contradicts it. This bias not ...
Views: 781 - How You Reveal Yourself Unwittingly By What You Display - by Submitted on Jan 15, 2019 from Kare AndersonDid you know that young males with organized college dorm rooms that have a sports décor tend to be conservative? Or that liberals are more likely to have messy room? Or that displaying inspirational posters sometimes signals a neurotic?” Those are just some of Sam Gosling’s fascinating ...
Views: 926 - HowTo Become More Trustworthy - by Submitted on Nov 13, 2020 from Kare AndersonEven though it’s been over a decade ago, I vividly recall my shock when sitting in a committee meeting for a non-profit. The chair asked us each to report back on the task we agreed to do. The second told us that she hadn’t started on her assignment because it had been a very busy month at work. ...
Views: 693 - Increase Your Credibility and Visibility - by Submitted on Jun 23, 2020 from Kare AndersonThe smaller the coffin, the heavier it is to carry,” Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif told CNN host Christiane Amanpour. Then he went on to describe a Taliban massacre where many children were killed. Asif didn’t try to evoke an emotion with grand generalizations. Instead he generated ...
Views: 548 - Is Your World “Me” or “Us” Centered? - by Submitted on Feb 06, 2009 from Kare AndersonWe instinctively experience situations as individuals or as part of a group. As David Brooks suggests today, the world is divided into those with an individualist or a collectivist mentality. Guess which group is larger. Freedom to succeed. That powerful American dream attracts millions of ...
Views: 1456 - Keeping Cool While Under Fire - by Submitted on Jan 07, 2007 from Kare Anderson"Keeping Cool While Under Fire" by Kare Anderson Imagine. The number one reason people get fired in the U.S. is anger, andthe number one problem people say they have at work is they do not feelheard and respected. How do we make people feel heard when they are difficult to be around -- and ...
Views: 2319 - Kindness Can Opens Hearts and Unexpected Opportunities - by Submitted on Oct 07, 2019 from Kare AndersonKindness 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, “You cannot do a kindness too ...
Views: 966 - Like To Pull Your Life Together? - by Submitted on Nov 04, 2020 from Kare AndersonWhat do these stories have in common? “Train hard, laugh harder” could have been the motto of the U.S. national soccer team when two-time Olympic gold medal winner, Julie Foudy, was captain, “the team’s comic relief and its social conscience” according to a New York Times article that cited her ...
Views: 756 - Making Smarter Decisions in Buying, Selling or Supporting Others - by Submitted on Sep 12, 2019 from Kare AndersonDavid Phillips was rushing up and down the supermarket aisles within seconds after seeing Healthy Choices “Early Bird Special.” He bought up all their 90-cent soups in the store. Then he raced over to a discount outlet to get all the brand’s 25-cent chocolate pudding cups. No time to pause. ...
Views: 570 - Making Smarter Decisions in Buying, Selling or Supporting Others - by Submitted on Sep 12, 2019 from Kare AndersonDavid Phillips was rushing up and down the supermarket aisles within seconds after seeing Healthy Choices “Early Bird Special.” He bought up all their 90-cent soups in the store. Then he raced over to a discount outlet to get all the brand’s 25-cent chocolate pudding cups. No time to pause. ...
Views: 538 - Making Smarter Decisions in Buying, Selling or Supporting Others - by Submitted on Sep 12, 2019 from Kare AndersonDavid Phillips was rushing up and down the supermarket aisles within seconds after seeing Healthy Choices “Early Bird Special.” He bought up all their 90-cent soups in the store. Then he raced over to a discount outlet to get all the brand’s 25-cent chocolate pudding cups. No time to pause. ...
Views: 582 - Making Smarter Decisions in Buying, Selling or Supporting Others - by Submitted on Sep 12, 2019 from Kare AndersonDavid Phillips was rushing up and down the supermarket aisles within seconds after seeing Healthy Choices “Early Bird Special.” He bought up all their 90-cent soups in the store. Then he raced over to a discount outlet to get all the brand’s 25-cent chocolate pudding cups. No time to pause. ...
Views: 567 - Making Smarter Decisions in Buying, Selling or Supporting Others - by Submitted on Sep 12, 2019 from Kare AndersonDavid Phillips was rushing up and down the supermarket aisles within seconds after seeing Healthy Choices “Early Bird Special.” He bought up all their 90-cent soups in the store. Then he raced over to a discount outlet to get all the brand’s 25-cent chocolate pudding cups. No time to pause. ...
Views: 817 - Making Smarter Decisions in Buying, Selling or Supporting Others - by Submitted on Sep 12, 2019 from Kare AndersonDavid Phillips was rushing up and down the supermarket aisles within seconds after seeing Healthy Choices “Early Bird Special.” He bought up all their 90-cent soups in the store. Then he raced over to a discount outlet to get all the brand’s 25-cent chocolate pudding cups. No time to pause. ...
Views: 789 - Making Smarter Decisions in Buying, Selling or Supporting Others - by Submitted on Sep 12, 2019 from Kare AndersonDavid Phillips was rushing up and down the supermarket aisles within seconds after seeing Healthy Choices “Early Bird Special.” He bought up all their 90-cent soups in the store. Then he raced over to a discount outlet to get all the brand’s 25-cent chocolate pudding cups. No time to pause. ...
Views: 849 - Making Smarter Decisions in Buying, Selling or Supporting Others - by Submitted on Sep 12, 2019 from Kare AndersonDavid Phillips was rushing up and down the supermarket aisles within seconds after seeing Healthy Choices “Early Bird Special.” He bought up all their 90-cent soups in the store. Then he raced over to a discount outlet to get all the brand’s 25-cent chocolate pudding cups. No time to pause. ...
Views: 808 - More Helpful Than New Year’s Resolutions - by Submitted on Dec 01, 2018 from Kare AndersonForget making New Year’s resolutions this year. They are notoriously hard to keep. Instead start down a concrete path to make your work and life more meaningful and satisfying. How? Begin by “finding the thread that ties your story together” suggests Pamela Slim in her new book, Body of Work. ...
Views: 947 - More Helpful Than New Year’s Resolutions - by Submitted on Dec 01, 2018 from Kare AndersonForget making New Year’s resolutions this year. They are notoriously hard to keep. Instead start down a concrete path to make your work and life more meaningful and satisfying. How? Begin by “finding the thread that ties your story together” suggests Pamela Slim in her new book, Body of Work. ...
Views: 1652 - Mortified by My Mistake Yet I Learned - by Submitted on Dec 04, 2019 from Kare AndersonTo this day I’m mortified when I see a box of chocolates. I was in the Antwerp airport, heading back to San Francisco. Before settling into a seat at my gate I bought two indulgences for the flight home, John le Carré’s Our Kind of Traitor and a box of Pierre Marcolini truffles, one of the most ...
Views: 789 - Our Journey to Corporate Sanity - by Submitted on Nov 07, 2020 from Kare AndersonOur Journey to Corporate Sanity: Transformational Stories from the Frontiers of 21st Century Leadership ~Book by Ayelet Baron: Kare Anderson’s chapter in that book: Emmy-winning former NBC and Wall Street Journaljournalist and TED presenter on Becoming an Opportunity Maker (with over 2.5 million ...
Views: 602 - Partner in Unexpected Ways to Win the Hearts of Customers & Communities - by Submitted on Nov 25, 2019 from Kare AndersonThat’s how Applebee’s attracted more customers – many first-time visitors – to their family restaurants one summer, without advertising more. When Weight Watchers designed and branded several low-cal menu items for Applebee’s, followers of the Weight Watchers program (and those who were thinking ...
Views: 731 - Passive Men and Wild, Wild Women - by Submitted on Jan 23, 2019 from Kare AndersonIn his novel, Something Happened, Joseph Heller wrote “I try my best to remember on what terms (my wife) and I parted this morning, or went to sleep last night, in order to know if she is still angry with me for something I did or did not say or do that I a no longer aware of. Is she mad or is ...
Views: 1239 - Profitable, Successful Cross-Promotion Methods - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2019 from Kare Anderson14 Simple Ways to Jump-Start Your First Cross-Promotion Look for the most frequent patterns in your customers to find the most beneficial partners. Then consider which business offers the best quality of product or service like the one your kind of client might use. Propose a simple, low-risk ...
Views: 787 - Proven Way to Make Most Any Bad Situation Better - by Submitted on Nov 20, 2018 from Kare AndersonWhen told to tackle the widespread child malnutrition in Vietnam in 1990 as an employee of Save the Children, Jerry and Monique Sternin could easily have become overwhelmed. Plus the country’s foreign minister told them, “You have six months to make a difference.” Instead of looking at the ...
Views: 856 - Proven Way to Make Most Any Bad Situation Better - by Submitted on Nov 20, 2018 from Kare AndersonWhen told to tackle the widespread child malnutrition in Vietnam in 1990 as an employee of Save the Children, Jerry and Monique Sternin could easily have become overwhelmed. Plus the country’s foreign minister told them, “You have six months to make a difference.” Instead of looking at the ...
Views: 812 - Pull Others Into Your Stories and Boost In Bragging Rights - by Submitted on Apr 07, 2021 from Kare AndersonHow To Pull Others Into Your Stories and Boost In Bragging Rights With a warm smile on his face an elderly gentleman came up to speak to me after hearing my keynote on Ways to Live a More Meaningful Life and asked if he could tell me about an experience he’d had the previous week that made him ...
Views: 507 - Pull Others Into Your Stories and Boost Via Bragging Rights - by Submitted on Dec 30, 2020 from Kare AndersonWith a warm smile on his face an elderly gentleman came up to speak to me after hearing my keynote on Ways to Live a More Meaningful Life and asked if he could tell me about an experience he’d had the previous week that made him decide not to retire for awhile after all. He told me he’d been a ...
Views: 784 - Ready To Identify Your Breakthrough Idea That Attracts Others? - by Submitted on Jun 08, 2019 from Kare AndersonFeeling like you’re working harder yet not smarter over time? Feeling thwarted, scattered or under appreciated? You are not alone. Perhaps the biggest gateway into a more successful and meaningful work and life is this step: Distill your smarts and most passionate interests into a distinctive, ...
Views: 604 - Ready to Make Your Meeting More Memorable? - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2019 from Kare AndersonWhat makes gatherings truly meaningful and memorable? It’s not necessarily how much money was spent, but rather how many positive, memorable moments an attendee recalls. To get a handle on some of the positives and negatives of your meeting, start your planning with a “sensory exposure ...
Views: 648 - Recognize Your Life So Far to Enjoy a More Meaningful, Fun One - by Submitted on Feb 06, 2019 from Kare AndersonHow we cobble together the incidents in our lives and create a narrative thread reflects that spin, revealing our hidden personalities and our tendencies suggests psychologist Dan McAdams, author of The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live By. Writing of her secret life as a prostitute, a ...
Views: 859 - Recognize Your Life So Far to Enjoy a More Meaningful, Fun One - by Submitted on Feb 06, 2019 from Kare AndersonHow we cobble together the incidents in our lives and create a narrative thread reflects that spin, revealing our hidden personalities and our tendencies suggests psychologist Dan McAdams, author of The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live By. Writing of her secret life as a prostitute, a ...
Views: 904 - Reduce Overhead Costs Via The Right Kind of Cross-Promotional Partnerships - by Submitted on Dec 12, 2020 from Kare AndersonEven the most time-pressed business owner can attract more customers with less effort through the right cross-promotional marketing. Why? Because when you join forces with other credible people who also reach your target market you can reach your customers more efficiently, credibly, and ...
Views: 582 - See How Others’ Insults Are Opportunities to Unify Us Around You - by Submitted on Sep 18, 2019 from Kare AndersonWhen I was a Wall Street Journal journalist, I was sent to cover a football game in Barcelona. Later during the game in the stadium I was startled to see many spectators in the stadium yelling racist insults down at the renowned Brazilian footballer, the flying fullback Dani Alves. Capping it ...
Views: 727 - See Insults as Opportunities to Unify Others Around a Noble Option - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2020 from Kare AndersonDuring a packed stadium game, several spectators yelled racist insults down at the renowned, Brazilian footballer, Barcelona’s flying fullback, Dani Alves. Capping it off, an angry spectator who had been yelling epithets threw a banana down in front of Alves as he was walking back onto the ...
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