I was not able to find a 'best practices' site or space on the 'net listing the best "personalised" automatic signatures (which one can add on to the end of emails). Recently, I have noticed a couple of novel signatures tacked on to messages sent from smart phones --...
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Craig Tracy Body Painting : How the leopard got its body?
If you like the Rudyard Kipling story about how the leopard got its spots, you might like to take a closer look at this painting, and try to spot the human body. I came across this picture and story in London's METRO newspaper (Nov 2, 2009). The artist in question,...
Restaurant and Tarte Tropezienne of choice in St Tropez
Among the slew of restaurants that line the port of St Tropez, it is a roll of the dice to find the right address -- to avoid the overly expensive tourist trap, with slow or snobbish service, etc. Having entered and exited the smokey and hyper-touristic (if...
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) – 2 examples, one good, one bad.
We received, this week, two digital messages that grabbed my attention in the way of customer relationship management (CRM). The first example came from our children's dentist, based in Neuilly (outskirts of Paris). Partly because their telephone answering service is...
Measuring Quality of Life – A review between France and USA
As part of my Franco-American profile, I am naturally drawn to reading about comparisons and competition between France and the US. I came across this May 2009 article, France Beats America, which describes France's epicurean passion for "living it up" in terms of...
How to Keep Hard Cow Cheese Fresh ?
Have you ever struggled to keep your hard cheese fresh? Then, here is the answer, and it comes with proof. We did an experiment whereby we cut a wheel of Cornish Yarg (a delightful cow cheese that is wrapped in nettles) into two slices. We wrapped one slice in a cloth...
The MSM Media Challenge — Some more ideas of improvement
Here are some more ideas for the mainstream media (MSM) to kick into high gear with their online community. With media titles dying or falling fallow on a daily basis, the MSM crisis seems just now to be hitting full stride. The number of recent closures has been...
What does the future hold for Twitter? Announcing the Survey Results
Over the course of the last month, 39 people replied to this poll question (posted on the blog via polldaddy): What does the future hold for Twitter? Ok, so the results are not statistically relevant with just 39 results, but I thought I would publish the results of...
MEDEF 2009: Ethical Capitalism – A call for transparency?
MEDEF UNIVERSITE D'ETE PLENARY SESSION - 3 September, 2009 "Will capitalism become ethical or not?" Plenary Session animated by Jean-Pierre Elkabach Below I will highlight a few points that I took away from the two hour plenary session, brilliantly managed by JP...
Of Standards, Convergence & Collaboration – Winning back consumer confidence
Modern life is, at best, complex and, at worst, horribly wasteful and confusing. I am galled by the number of chargers that I must pack with me when I travel with my various electronics. On any given holidays, I will leave with the iPod, the blackberry, the Bluetooth...

To Book Minter!
I’m Minter Dial and I serve my clients by elevating the debate and energy, telling powerful stories and connecting people and ideas. My mission to insert more meaningfulness into our lives and at work. I relish being an engaging professional speaker on leadership, transformation and branding. I’m known for being someone who walks the talk and delivers on or above expectations. I’m the author of four award-winning books, including the second edition of my award-winning book, Heartificial Empathy (April 2023, available in English and French), You Lead published by Kogan Page that won the Business Book Award 2022, and Futureproof (FT-Press/Pearson) that won the Business Book Award 2018. I’m also the producer of the award-winning WWII book and documentary film The Last Ring Home.
My new project is Dialogos, Fostering More Meaningful Conversations that is being published weekly via Substack, which will be converted into a book end of 2023.










