by Minter Dial | May 29, 2019 | Digital Transformation, Leadership, Sports
In March 2011, I wrote a piece about the vortex of the 37th year. At the time of writing it, I was 46 years old and was reflecting back on my critical 37th year. I was 37 in 2001, running the professional haircare brand, Redken 5th Ave NYC, worldwide, part of the...
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 | Jul 8, 2018 | Health, Minter Dialogue, New Tech, Podcast, Sports
Minter Dialogue with Helene Guillaume, WILD Helene Guillaume is co-founder and CEO of WILD, a health tech startup backed by Entrepreneur First, pioneering in creating pre-emptive, preventative care for athletes. Specifically, WILD collects various data inputs and uses...
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...
by Minter Dial | Jul 25, 2017 | Sports
Last week, I wrote a post about my experience at the Wimbledon Championships 2017 with IBM and their data center. One of the questions I posed the IBM team was whether we could find and use data with a purpose? Specifically, I was hoping to find numbers...
by Minter Dial | Jul 19, 2016 | Sports
For the last couple of years, I have been the owner of a ‘connected’ racquet by Babolat. After a few technical hiccoughs (Connected Pure Drive), I now have a fully functioning and new Babolat Pure Drive Play (left). Outside of the fact that the racquet...