by Minter Dial | Sep 15, 2022 | Ethics, Leadership
When you do a scan of the business news, it seems that a high percentage of items concerns legal findings, fights and fines. Take just some of the notable cases in the news this past week, for example: Google was fined €4.13B by a European court for using its mobile...
by Minter Dial | Feb 24, 2021 | Business, Ethics, Futureproof, Leadership, Meaningfulness
The subject of purpose in business has become almost commonplace in discussions these days. I certainly have seen a lot of conversations online and, more recently, rooms on Clubhouse centered on the notion of developing purpose. The intentions are inevitably pleasant...
by Minter Dial | Nov 18, 2018 | Minter Dialogue, Podcast, Retail
Minter Dialogue with Doug Stephens Talk about a timely podcast! Jeff Bezos apparently told his employees: “‘One day, Amazon will fail’ but our job is to delay it as long as possible” [from CNBC on Nov 15 2018]. That’s exactly the...
by Minter Dial | Oct 16, 2018 | Retail
In New York, there are now two full-fledged Amazon Books stores, both of which were opened in 2017. I visited both sites, one at the Time Warner Center (Columbus Circle) and the other downtown (34th Street). I wanted to record my thoughts about the experience....
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...
