by Minter Dial | Sep 15, 2022 | Ethics, Leadership
When you do a scan of the business news, it seems that a high percentage of items concerns legal findings, fights and fines. Take just some of the notable cases in the news this past week, for example: Google was fined €4.13B by a European court for using its mobile...
by Minter Dial | Nov 24, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain, Business, Ethics, Leadership, Marketing, Meaningfulness, Politics
The outlook for business is laced with dark clouds Over the past two years, governments have printed extraordinary sums of money to “buoy” the economy. In the process, the trend toward bigger government continues inexorably onward. In some countries, the government...
by Minter Dial | Oct 21, 2021 | Ethics, Leadership, Politics, Social Media
“You’re a bigot and a racist!” Those were the words spoken to me after a speech I made three years ago. They came with not a little vitriol at an otherwise civilized meeting held at the BBC HQ, where about 200 journalists were on hand to discuss the...
by Minter Dial | Jul 7, 2021 | Business, Ethics, Marketing
How important is friendship for you? How strong are your relationships? These are two questions that have always been important but seem to be taking up a renewed and vital importance in a world of epidemic loneliness, acute mental health issues and a difficult work...
by Minter Dial | May 11, 2021 | Blockchain, Ethics, Meaningfulness, Politics
To be labelled as tribal these days is frequently considered a bad thing. Tribalism has negative connotations. At a minimum, it’s associated with driving a gap between “us and them” and often suggests some form of sense of superiority. At its worst,...
by Minter Dial | Apr 28, 2021 | Branding, Ethics, Marketing, Meaningfulness
With purpose being all the rage these days, it’s normal to start hearing about wild and crazy purposes being bandied about. On one end of the scale, you’ve got grand missions like: “To stop Ocean Plastic by gathering a billion people together to monetize...
