Archive for May, 2009

Grow a Popular and Profitable Online Community

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Want to make a living by hosting an online community? See this thorough post on exactly how Motley Fool creates multiple ways for amateur investors to help each other make smarter choices. 
Because the process and results are transparent you can see credible comparisons. That’s a trust-building feature for attracting members to any community. 

Denis Hancock describes how they evoked this Wisdom of Crowds effect to grow a profitable [...]

Posted in Collective Intelligence, community | 4 Comments »

Disagree? How to Keep Talking Instead of Arguing

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

He takes a stupid stand. (Translation: he hit my hot button.) My first response is to dislike him. (Apparently that’s a universal reaction.) My distaste shows on my face and in my tone, despite my attempt to cover my feelings in a cloak of civility. Even friends or sympathetic bystanders take a psychic step back.
Naturally [...]

Posted in Book, Conflict, Connecting | 2 Comments »

Getting Along With People Who Don’t Act Right Like You

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

In Star Trek two heroes in-the-making, one impulsively intuitive, the other straining to be rational, recognize they can learn from each other. So can women and men. How do you react in a hot situation?

“A thought comes when it will, not when I will,” wrote Nietzsche. Emotions are learned shortcuts for deciding, based on experience. In an argument culture we have many cues [...]

Posted in Book, Choice, behavior | 4 Comments »

How Humorless People Affect Us

Friday, May 1st, 2009

Like scent, humor has extremely offensive or captivating effects on us, depending on the kind.  In the past two posts I described two kinds, unifying and divisive. The third is humorless. Are you? 

Frank Tyger suggest that, “The ultimate test of whether you posses a sense of humor is your reaction when someone tells you you [...]

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