by Minter Dial | Aug 18, 2020 | Business, Politics
“There is almost total partisanship, both on the right and the left…. neither side talks to the other, and the divide just seems to be getting worse.” Does this sentence resonate at all? It was written by my great-grandfather, Nathaniel Barksdale...
by Minter Dial | Jun 9, 2020 | Business, New Tech
When you are organizing a conference, be it virtual or In Real Life (IRL), among the more commonly used formats is the panel or a roundtable. In either case, the nature of the concept is a meeting of minds, an opportunity for conversation and debate around a given...
by Minter Dial | Jul 23, 2019 | Business
Across the 50 or so speeches I’ve made around the launch of my last book, Heartificial Empathy, one of the most recurrent questions is about how to develop more empathy in business. For some, it seems like a frantically urgent need. For others, though, it’s more like...
by Minter Dial | Jul 17, 2019 | Business, Leadership
A few years ago I started to think about the most untapped levers of productivity in business being empathy, sleep and purpose, which I have converted into the acronym ESP. I penned a blog post in 2018 that summarized my opinion. It turns out that, beyond the data...
by Minter Dial | Jul 10, 2019 | Business, Digital Transformation
Yesterday, the Adam Smith think tank recommended the legalization of cannabis in the UK [Evening Standard article]. Based on their research and the examples of Canada and Colorado in the US, the evidence seems to point to pot legalization leading to lower crime....
by Minter Dial | Jul 2, 2019 | Business, Digital Transformation, WWII
In the corner of the school yard, the young girl sat with her friend, shaded by an orange tree, its branches wilting with ripe fruit: “Want to know my secret?” she whispered into the ear of her friend. The young boy nodded carefully, not wishing to divulge...