Template Your Business to Increase Profits Via Others’ Success With It

Kare Anderson — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:07:28 -0500

Ugandan women sell health, using the Avon ladies’ approach. Yes, door-to-door outreach looks different in villages than in American suburbs.

Leadership

How to Feel Up in a Down Economy

Kare Anderson — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:50:12 -0500

Only the loony disregard this crashing economy. Yet the prudent recognize it’s vital now to practice resilience, even virtue. It helps to be near friends who feel the same. (Who lifts your spirits?) So it also helps to know that we’re born with a set point for happiness.

Leadership

Make Wiser Choices, Stronger Friendships and More Opportunity by Visualizing Your Circles of Connection

Kare Anderson — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:50:33 -0500

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 next year.

Keep Clients From Leaving in a Dire Economy

Kare Anderson — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:47:23 -0500

Your customers are tempted to include your business in their cost-cutting efforts. Act now to offer extra value, adopting a method that won’t cost you more. In fact, it often reduces overhead. Two rival businesses are using it.

Sayings for Making Life Meaningful – With Others

Kare Anderson — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:43:11 -0500

Here’s to living a greater life and accomplishing greater things together than we can on our own:

“It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else’s private world with our own. “ ~ Joyce Carol Oates

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” ~ Carl Jung

Build Strong Teams the Obama Way

Kare Anderson — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:40:37 -0500

We can be stakeholders in the future of the U.S.,

Comment on Node ant

Kare Anderson — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:36:55 -0500

Agree+ disagree.

A story distilled to a slogan enables people to be "in the know"
when moved by the story and refer to it in "shorthand"
when aptly referring to the underlying theme/goal of the story...
making it more repeatable, familiar and closer to the core of their work and life.

Tipping point stories and phrase = an example.

Then a story + slogan moves "you" and "me" more swiftly
to a "we" feeling and action.
motivated by the story

Be Helpful in Ways Would-be Customers Will Admire

Kare Anderson — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:01:44 -0400

Want to stand out from the competition? Take a cue from a bank. Some people in Orange County, California, will be walking into a local bank branch to vote. Many will be assisted by bank volunteers who have been trained as poll workers. This SmartPartnership made local and international news. Would you like customer-attracting media coverage too? Read on.

Help Solve a Problem

4 Successful Ways We Achieve More Together Than Alone

Kare Anderson — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:00:38 -0400

Tired of self-promotion? Would you like to make work and life easier, more productive and fun – with others? Here’s four ways others accomplish more together than you can on your own – and sometimes forge friendships.

1. Co-create Products, Cause Support and More

• From clothing design to science experiments, the right crowd can get more done together.

• Collaborate online for a cause or faster innovation - and to become more well-known.

• Crowdsource a contest; take it public.

2. Swap and Share

How We Can Argue Better

Kare Anderson — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:59:01 -0400

“Presidential candidate George Bush will be active in making pronouncements in the coming weeks… He wants to define himself before his opponents do it for him,” intoned a radio commentator when the previous Bush became president. Yes, nicknames stick. “To name a thing is not the same as to know a thing,” Richard Feynman wrote, yet naming is a potent persuasion tool.