by Minter Dial | Dec 11, 2018 | Ethics, Leadership
In the preamble of a Waking Up with Sam Harris podcast (“Sacred & Profane” #138), Sam explored the topic of apologies, including the scope and timeframe for saying sorry. How, when and why is an apology acceptable? What makes the apology palatable or...
by Minter Dial | Dec 4, 2018 | Leadership, Marketing
I’m a frequent traveller and enjoy exploring and comparing travel experiences every once in a while. Last week, I flew from London to Istanbul, to speak at the Digital Analytics Summit at the Boğaziçi University, on one of Turkish Airlines’ wide-body...
by Minter Dial | Nov 27, 2018 | Digital Transformation, Futureproof, Leadership
When Caleb and I wrote Futureproof, we came up with a model for helping to implement change. For each force in Futureproof, we created a small action plan for individuals to get started on their transformation. The model is called a Slice of a PIE: Personal Internal...
by Minter Dial | Nov 27, 2018 | Leadership, Marketing
I listened to a recent (and rather epic 4-hour-long) Joe Rogan podcast with his frequent guest and brilliant mathematician, Eric Weinstein, who proposed that we are in the Era of Disagreeability. Paraphrasing him, it’s about not being easily swayed from your...
by Minter Dial | Nov 20, 2018 | Futureproof, Leadership
At a recent and jovial countryside lunch, I landed on a new word that I’d not come across before: a passionist. [To be clear, we were not talking about a Roman Catholic Passionist.] To be a passionist we reasoned would be someone with a strong passion. I loved...
by Minter Dial | Oct 9, 2018 | Leadership, Sports
As I like to write, sports have played an integral part of my life. It brought me discipline, knowledge of my body and my limits, friends (and a few nemeses) as well as core values and a ton of life skills. In a chat with a lifetime cricketer friend, Tim Brocklehurst...
