by Minter Dial | Oct 2, 2017 | Business, Collaboration, Futureproof, Meaningfulness, Responsibility
The $13.7B purchase of Whole Foods by Amazon this summer will be a bell-weather for Amazon's future. Share on X Will Amazon transform Whole Foods or vice versa? As this WSJ article posits, so far the impact seems to be the former. Naturally, the whole reason...
by Minter Dial | Jun 18, 2017 | Leadership, Meaningfulness
Many are the brand consultants, agencies and marketing articles that talk about the importance of a brand’s authenticity. Why is authenticity so à la mode, you might ask? I put it down to three factors: Marketing (as a function) and advertising (as a practice)...
by Minter Dial | Mar 30, 2017 | Ethics, Genomics, Health
Are you someone who pays attention to what you eat? Maybe you even consider yourself a “foodie”? When it comes to grocery shopping, I have learned to be significantly more picky over the years. Certain ingredients are forbidden, like hormone-treated...
by Minter Dial | Mar 22, 2017 | Ethics
Having just spent a week at South By Southwest (SXSW) in Austin Texas, I heard a number of recurrent themes throughout many of the panels and sessions I attended. Two of the themes struck me as most paradoxical: the right to privacy defense of the freedom of speech...
by Minter Dial | Feb 10, 2017 | Leadership
While net neutrality must not end, can a brand or company afford its own neutrality around important ethical issues? Standing for Something Mr Trump is a disruptor. Love him or hate him, he is changing things up. One of the most unexpected and rather unusual outcomes...
