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...
by Minter Dial | Apr 26, 2009 | Leadership, Politics
Macro and Micro Consequences of When A Recession Begins In a recession, timing plays an absolutely vital part at the macro level. Much of the debate about when the current recession will end is related to when it actually began. The “reality” of a...
by Minter Dial | Mar 31, 2009 | Leadership
Sometimes there are wonderful messages that pop up in your life. I am not thinking of the messages on email or Facebook, etc. I am thinking of the random ones that you have to look out for. There I was, taking a chairlift at the Combloux ski resort and thinking...