by Minter Dial | Feb 16, 2018 | Business, Futureproof
We are delighted to announce that Futureproof has been voted a finalist in the inaugural Business Book Award 2018 in the category, Embracing Change. The awards ceremony event will be held on March 16, 2018 at the The Grange City Hotel London. Caleb Storkey (co-author)...
by Minter Dial | Feb 13, 2018 | Business, Leadership, Responsibility
How busy would you say you are? Would you not agree that many of your friends and colleagues are all saying roughly the same thing, along the lines: “Yeah, I’m super busy. Lots of stuff going on….” Some would consider it a badge of honour to be...
by Minter Dial | Oct 2, 2017 | Business, Collaboration, Futureproof, Meaningfulness, Responsibility
The $13.7B purchase of Whole Foods by Amazon this summer will be a bell-weather for Amazon's future. Share on X Will Amazon transform Whole Foods or vice versa? As this WSJ article posits, so far the impact seems to be the former. Naturally, the whole reason...
by Minter Dial | Sep 27, 2016 | Business
Conde Nast (CN) announced this initiative a year and a half ago and, in early September 2016, finally relaunched Style.com — owned by FARFETCH since 2017 — but only as a pilot in the eComm savvy market in the UK. The rollout in the US and rest of Europe...
by Minter Dial | Jul 22, 2016 | Business
User experience and design thinking is all the rage these days. Yet, I am aghast at how often the design of toilets (aka bathrooms or loos) is regularly overlooked. Sure, there may be stylish or trendy wash basins; but they all too often forget the practical aspects....
by Minter Dial | Jun 19, 2016 | Business, Minter Dialogue
Minter Dialogue #200 with Jeffrey Kofman This interview is with Jeffrey Kofman, the Emmy award-winning foreign and war correspondent (for coverage of the Libyan revolution and for coverage of 9/11 WTC attacks), who is now CEO and co-founder of a really fascinating...