by Minter Dial | May 6, 2010 | New Tech
Over the last few days, I have read a number of reports of the horrors of PowerPoint. It seemed to start with the New York Times article about the illusionary trap of Powerpoint presentations used by US Army ‘intelligence’ which stimulated a post by...
by Minter Dial | Mar 9, 2010 | New Tech
In Paris, yesterday, I attended a conference hosted by the MEDEF (the union of employers in France), where the ORSE (Observatory of Societal Responsibility in Enterprises) was promoting among other things the arrival of a new book, « Patrons...
by Minter Dial | Mar 1, 2010 | Politics, Responsibility
Transparency is one of the important buzzwords that has surged into new management and leadership vocabulary and, surely, rightly so. It has, in fact, become such a buzzword that the University of Michigan has put it tops of its 2010 list of 15 words that should be...
by Minter Dial | Dec 8, 2009 | Marketing
Momentum Effect by JC Larréché I attended a presentation last week by Jean-Claude Larréché, famed marketing professor from INSEAD (still teaching there and also was there when I attended in 1993). Jean-Claude gave a short and punchy overview of the key points of his...
by Minter Dial | Nov 24, 2009 | Leadership
I attended a GEF (Grandes Ecoles au Féminin [1]) conference yesterday, here in Paris, at which I listened to the results of an Ipsos study entitled, “How to improve the mix of women in management [in France].” You can read the French results here. This was...