How to Nudge Others to Act “Right”

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

Unconditional love is a swell idea yet admit it.  Aren’t there times you’d like to change other’s behavior? Get them to act right, like you.  Or perhaps you’d like to drop a bad habit.  Then learn how to “nudge.”

That’s a situational prompt that sways people to change.
For example, the traditional approach to getting drivers to [...]

We Do Better Together – Books That Show Us How

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

I started this blog soon after The Age of Engagement morphed into a flood of 

ideas on how “we” can accomplish more together. Here are the books I’ve mentioned and authors I have interviewed. Crowdsourcing (Jeff Howe), Here Comes Everybody Clay  Shirky), groundswell (Charlene

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Collaborate Towards a Single Goal. Expect the Unexpected.

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

More than your solitary smarts, your capacity to do something extraordinary depends on something else. It is your ability to build on the work of others from the past or with others at the same time. So said Malcolm Gladwell at last year’s New Yorker conference. This may be a key theme in [...]

Are You Dating Obama? (How Attraction Builds Stronger Relationships, Or Not)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

When we first fall for someone, we become enamored with everything about that person. We gush. We create things to commemorate their specialness. We feel so connected, we fill in the blanks about what we don’t know. We assume we will like the rest of that person just as much. That’s just human.
If we then [...]

Why al Queda and AA are Succeeding and You Can Too

Friday, December 7th, 2007

The unpopularity of top-down management is old news by now. Yet how, exactly, does one create an openly collaborative organization? One that’s based on the power of peer relationships? One that can thrive?
The best Peer2Peer groups are efficient, adaptive and resilient resource-maximizers. That’s why they include “good” and “bad” groups. They are exceedingly good [...]

 
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