by Minter Dial | Mar 2, 2016 | Leadership, Meaningfulness
These are interesting days, any way you cut it. Whether it’s the latest new tech innovations, magnificent astronomical discoveries, an ever-present terrorist threat, looming election fever in multiple countries or the fear of a financial bubble...
by Minter Dial | Feb 18, 2016 | Leadership
If you are a teacher at university, you are wholly — and daily — aware of the challenge of battling for your students’ attention beyond and behind the invading and invasive digital screens. In a school room, the tragedy of the situation is that the...
by Minter Dial | Feb 5, 2016 | Leadership
When I was first asked the question whether parenting skills were transferable to the work place (in terms of management skills), I shrugged off the idea. But, with some further reflection, I think it is entirely appropriate. Maybe it’s about letting the inner...
by Minter Dial | Jan 14, 2016 | Leadership
Have you ever heard the phrase: Nothing personal, it’s business” The hairs on the back of my neck bristle at the thought. This type of pre-emptive sentence is a barely veiled attempt to temper the blow. It typically accompanies a severe and/or harshly...
by Minter Dial | Dec 8, 2015 | Leadership
Last week, I conducted a survey and received nearly 200 responses. You can see the first post on the topic here, featuring the results across the 13 questions, each of which tackled a specific “digital” situation. For each question, the respondents were...
by Minter Dial | Nov 26, 2015 | Leadership
I wrote a first post, inspired by this Ted Talk given by Debra Jarvis, a chaplain, about the importance of defining your meaning and claiming your experience. In this post, I tackle a second message that resonated with me in her speech; one that pertains to...
