Minter Dial
Minter Dial is an international professional speaker, author & consultant on Leadership, Branding and Digital Strategy. After a successful international career at L’Oréal, Minter Dial returned to his entrepreneurial roots and has spent the last ten years helping senior management teams and Boards to adapt to the new exigencies of the digitally enhanced marketplace. He has worked with world-class organisations to help activate their brand strategies, and figure out how best to integrate new technologies, digital tools, devices and platforms. Above all, Minter works to catalyse a change in mindset and dial up transformation. Minter received his BA in Trilingual Literature from Yale University (1987) and gained his MBA at INSEAD, Fontainebleau (1993).
His books include Heartificial Empathy, Putting Heart into Business and Artificial Intelligence, bowed in December 2018 and won the Book Excellence Award 2019 as well as being shortlisted for the Business Book Awards 2019. It's available in Audiobook, Kindle and Paperback. He is also co-author of Futureproof (Pearson, Sep 2017) and sole author of The Last Ring Home (Myndset Press, Nov 2016), a book and documentary film, both of which have won awards and critical acclaim. Minter's latest book, You Lead, How being yourself makes you a better leader, published by Kogan Page, won the Business Book Award 2022 in the category of Leadership.
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Into number 16, and the new consideration is that it is the sense of humour, the perversity as well as the well wound mystery that make it so much more than a regular soap opera…
This is a new genre – SLUT Opera – basically invented by Sex and the City. High heels, Cuban heels, high production values, high camp, high brow. The point is to satirise our conventions and, in the case of Sex ATC, blow them away. Soap Operas pander to our conventions; they are horrible but serve the purpose of showing us how low we have fallen. The SLUT Opera sets out to break all taboos – the underlying premise of DH is that even murder is fine…watch on, but in high comedy mode.
I would add that each “Desperate Housewives” episode ends with a philosophical comment for us viewers to think about and reflect on such as our visions of life, time passing, values and contradictions, … all so close to desperation.
No, it’s not a soap opera. Soap operas are typically lower budget and lack a sense of uniqueness because they pander to convention. Desperate Housewives was a comedy drama series involving satire; it was much slicker, very stylish, and actually broke convention. The main difference though is that soap operas are broadcast daily; Desperate Housewives was broadcast weekly like other shows that would fall into the category of drama. So it definitely was not a soap opera.
Hi Stevie, You make a cogent case. Funnily enough, we broke out an old episode of DH just a few nights ago. The philosophical comments of Mary Alice still ring true.