by Minter Dial | Jul 14, 2015 | New Tech
In a speech delivered on the occasion of Yahoo’s 20th anniversary, Frédéric Martel, journalist (NPR, France Culture) and author (Smart, Survey of the internets Stock editions, April 2014), said a sentence that piqued my interest: Every time I return from my...
by Minter Dial | Dec 21, 2014 | Cyber Security, Leadership, Responsibility
We live in an increasingly transparent world, like it or not. In the wake of the SONY hack attack, I have been ruminating about the request by the company for the media NOT to broadcast the private (and embarrassing) emails. In September, when the Apple iCloud was...
by Minter Dial | Oct 7, 2014 | Leadership
Mitch Joel, the inspiring content provider and a role model for me personally, recently recorded yet another stirring podcast, entitled “Laughing all the way to the Bank with James Altucher.” In this podcast, Mitch and James discuss their shared passion...
by Minter Dial | Sep 26, 2012 | Responsibility, Social Media
Groundwork for digital marketing The first things a CEO needs to evaluate, in order to create and apply an effective digital marketing strategy, are threefold: A very clear objective of what he/she wishes to achieve in digital that the company...
by Minter Dial | Aug 8, 2012 | Business
People talk quite a lot about empathy as an important quality of modern leaders. There are blogs and sites vaunting its beneficial powers (See below for a good list of resources). The issue is that empathy is not a natural skill. It takes time to develop...