by Minter Dial | Jul 3, 2018 | Education, Leadership
I arrived in Fontainebleau (France) on the heels of a lot of travel, to return to where I spent a marvellous year at the INSEAD Business School. Truth be told, the reunion spirit started virtually well before thanks to Facebook and WhatsApp; and the first encounter...
by Minter Dial | May 17, 2018 | Leadership, Marketing, Responsibility
To accept imperfection is perhaps the most complicated of attitudes to adopt in business. It’s almost antithetical to everything senior business executives have been trained to do. In some regards, however, I would suggest it’s a core mindset for an...
by Minter Dial | Apr 24, 2018 | Digital Transformation, Leadership
Many companies have decided that being customer centric is the new way forward. Some brands — most notably Zappos and owner Amazon — discovered quite a while ago how powerful being customer centric is. To wit, it’s Amazon’s mission to be the...
by Minter Dial | Apr 22, 2018 | Leadership, Minter Dialogue, Podcast
Minter Dialogue with Seth Godin Seth Godin is a best-selling author, entrepreneur, a teacher, a multi-time big time TED talker, with a million people listening to his daily word. He has written 18 best-selling books, including The Dip, Linchpin, Purple Cow and Tribes....
by Minter Dial | Apr 5, 2018 | Cyber Security, Leadership
I bet it’s frustrating working in a large organisation and to keep hearing about “test & learn” or “fail fast” or “agile management” when management behaviour contradicts the words. If recent history is any indicator of...
by Minter Dial | Mar 1, 2018 | Leadership, Sports
When a team punches above its weight This has to be one of the most enduring challenges for any business whether small or large. I was struck by the Bill Pennington article in the NYT, “The Ski Team That Sleeps Together Wins a Lot of Gold Medals” outlining...
