by Minter Dial | Sep 14, 2012 | Leadership
Over the last ten years, what are the two most inspiring business successes out there? Great, enduring but how copiable? I would imagine that in a poll, in the Western world in any event, the two most common answers would be Apple and Google. What do you think?...
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...
by Minter Dial | Jul 30, 2012 | Responsibility, Social Media
When talking digital marketing with companies, I tend to come across two general postures: those who are fighting for more funds and more people (to man the keyboards) and those who have been assigned the task of bulking up their digital marketing efforts. Unfunded...
by Minter Dial | Jul 18, 2012 | Politics
As I travel around the world and work in different organizations, I see women and men trying to get to grips with the trifecta of problems (aka excuses) as to why business is not going as well as they would like: no time no resources no luck Ok, perhaps, that’s...
by Minter Dial | Jul 10, 2012 | Social Media
Have you ever heard or said either of these excuses? “We’re so lean we don’t have the budget”or”You understand, we’re behind on our targets, so we don’t have any more budget” I think it’s highly unlikely you...