A long line formed outside Ladurée, rue Royale, Paris I have long worked right next to the Ladurée, the famed French patisserie, on rue Royale, the site of the company's very first store at its founding in 1862. If there is one place which incarnates Paris in its...
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Prada creates “temporary” store in Paris 8e (92 rue Faubourg St Honore)
While Prada renovates its flagship store on rue Faubourg St Honoré, they have created a temporary storefront at 92 rue Faubourg St Honoré, Paris 75008, (previously it was the chic Ariane Dandois art gallery, pictured right courtesy of Google Maps). Even if this is...
Copa and Continental Airlines: Copa Copycat
Notice any similarities? Looking up at this message board at CDG airport the other day, I could not help but notice the similarity in the logos of Copa Airlines and Continental Airlines. Dating back to a 1998 strategic alliance between these two companies (about which...
Parking nightmare in Paris in August 2009
If you drive a car in Paris, then you know what a daily battle it is to find a parking place.... especially one that is not under a pigeon-infested tree which will cause the chrome paint to dissolve the following morning because of all the pigeon dooodoo. On national...
Top Ten Recent Posts on Minter Dialogue Blog
Taking a cue from one of my favourite blogs Being Peter Kim, I thought I would take a step back and write down which are the top ten posts read on this blog over the last month. As Peter says, "blog content can be both highly perishable and easy to miss." Coffee Latte...
04:05:06 07/08/09 A Perfect Day in 2009
For all of you living outside of the US who write the date 'normally' (i.e. DD/MM/YY), tomorrow morning the time and date will read: 04:05:06 07/08/09 five minutes and six seconds after 4 AM in the morning of the 7th of August 2009 If nothing else, pause and smell the...
Ease Finger Soreness when Learning to Play Guitar – wikiHow
For the guitar players out there who don't play as often as they might like (or are just starting up), I thought this "how to" was rather good. Ease Finger Soreness when Learning to Play Guitar - wikiHow My favourite ideas in this list: "Practice with a capo on the...
A Worthwhile visit in Kent: Ightham Mote
If you are driving around Kent, England, and are wondering which National Trust sites to visit, I recommend putting Ightham (pronounced item) Mote, Sevenoaks, high on your list. This medieval moated manor house, dating from 1320, has a splendid history. After a...
Mystery solved: Swing your arms to save energy!
A recent study by team of three biomedical researchers from the USA and Holland (headed by Steven Collins at the University of Michigan) has, according to all the newspaper articles I ran across, solved the "burning mystery" why people tend to swing their arms...
Chimpanzee AI – Memory Experiment to Blow Your Mind
Here is a 10-minute video that had me giggling, at first, then laughing blissfully out loud. This video is from the Primate Research Institute at Kyoto University in Japan, where scientists have managed to train a chimpanzee named AI (Artificial Intelligence?) to...
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.
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