by Minter Dial | Apr 6, 2011 | Leadership
A touch of grey (hair) proud of your greys? Companies talk a lot about bringing “diversity” into their organization. But, for all their stated desires, the fact of the matter is that it is easier said than done. Introducing or...
by Minter Dial | Mar 11, 2011 | Business, Leadership
What is on your mind? Are you 37 years old…and counting Are you 37 years old and working for a larger sized company? If so, my hunch is that you have been doing an awful lot of thinking recently. Over the course of the last two years, I have had the chance to...
by Minter Dial | Oct 16, 2010 | Leadership
« The book of the year | Blog Home | N-1 » Heroes and mentors Mentors provide bespoke guidance. They take a personal interest in you. It’s customized, rare and expensive. Heroes live their lives in public, broadcasting their model to anyone who cares to look....
by Minter Dial | Sep 4, 2010 | Leadership, Sports
It happens throughout every match — players uncork a first serve with as much force as possible, confident in the knowledge that another chance awaits. And on the second serve, they hit a much different, more timid, perceptibly slower serve.The ball is more likely to...
by Minter Dial | Jul 3, 2010 | Leadership, Responsibility, Social Media
Facebook’s sweeping success is, in very large part, because it is a hybrid social media, brokering the gap of personal and professional. The rules of the social media game privilege ‘personal’ communications; and companies that manage to insert...
by Minter Dial | Nov 24, 2009 | Leadership
I attended a GEF (Grandes Ecoles au Féminin [1]) conference yesterday, here in Paris, at which I listened to the results of an Ipsos study entitled, “How to improve the mix of women in management [in France].” You can read the French results here. This was...