by Minter Dial | Jul 10, 2018 | Collaboration, Futureproof, Marketing
In today’s tumultuous times, it takes more than reading tea leaves to predict your future prospects. I read with not a little interest a couple of recent articles about my former employer, L’Oreal, the #1 beauty company in the world. First, there was the...
by Minter Dial | Feb 20, 2018 | Collaboration, Futureproof, Leadership
Whenever I get an inside view of a company culture, it seems so easy to find the faults. But what of the recipes for success? The bigger question becomes: How to develop a futureproof mindset? It starts at the top My first port of call is to see how switched on the...
by Minter Dial | Oct 10, 2017 | Collaboration, Futureproof
As consumers can whip out their phones to get instant, on-demand access to products and services they want, we’re seeing a shift in thinking from ownership to access. It’s almost expected at this point. If your business can’t offer something to compete with this...
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 | Sep 10, 2017 | Collaboration, Futureproof, Responsibility
What should be seen as a business case and common sense turns out to be a long-lasting challenge for people and organisations While differences have always existed in societies and certainly in business organisations, the phenomenon of diversity has become a...
by Minter Dial | May 25, 2017 | Collaboration, Leadership
In a recent conversation I had with a CEO of an online site, we exchanged on the almost conflicting nature of giving bold direction and vision versus empathic collaboration and listening skills. On the one hand, if we adhere to the ‘modern’ school of...
