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...
by Minter Dial | Sep 20, 2018 | Leadership
In a podcast interview I recently pre-recorded with Marie Miyashiro, one of the premier experts on empathy and author of The Empathy Factor, I was blessed with one of those a-ha! moments. In point of fact, my conversation with Marie made me aware of another important...
by Minter Dial | Aug 15, 2018 | Branding, Business, Leadership
The other day, I was wondering what sites like Glassdoor (skews North American), Comparably (skews US and heavily tech) and ChooseMyCompany (based in Paris, formerly Meilleures-Entreprises.com), that shine a light on the insides of a company, might be able to tell me...
by Minter Dial | Aug 8, 2018 | Futureproof, Leadership
A Freakonomics podcast from Nov 2017 discussed how productivity gains (and exponential ideas) were grinding to a halt (“Are we running out of Ideas?”). At the very least, the idea of endless productivity gains was called into question. If Moore’s Law may have held...
by Minter Dial | Jul 26, 2018 | Futureproof, Leadership, Meaningfulness, Responsibility
How much responsibility do you take for your life and its current outcome? Chances are, you like me, have a self-awareness that is not as finely tuned as it needs to be. I certainly know I struggle with it myself! There are two primary choices in life: to accept...
