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...
by Minter Dial | Jun 27, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business, Digital Transformation
I had the privilege of addressing one of, if not the oldest tech communities in the world, the Real Time Club. It was formed in 1967 by the American IT entrepreneur Alan Marshall and is currently chaired by the marvelous Dr John Collins. At this dinner, there was, as...
by Minter Dial | Mar 12, 2019 | Business, Collaboration, Cyber Security, Digital Transformation, Futureproof, Meaningfulness, Responsibility
Some mornings, I wake up and shake my head at the news headlines. Not just about the politics and the horrific results of climate change, but about the never-ending stream of new tech news. With an estimated 100 million startups in activity every year around the world...