by Minter Dial | Sep 13, 2018 | Branding, Futureproof, Marketing, Responsibility
To avoid discounting product or potential flooding of the market, luxury brands have been to known to go to extremes. Burberry’s intentional burning of excess inventory this summer caused a big stir. {See the Huffpo writeup} Following a fairly common industry...
by Minter Dial | Jul 26, 2018 | Futureproof, Leadership, Meaningfulness, Responsibility
How much responsibility do you take for your life and its current outcome? Chances are, you like me, have a self-awareness that is not as finely tuned as it needs to be. I certainly know I struggle with it myself! There are two primary choices in life: to accept...
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 | Jul 23, 2017 | Futureproof, Minter Dialogue, Podcast
Minter Dialogue with Caleb StorkeyCaleb Storkey is co-author with me of our upcoming book, Futureproof, How to get your business ready for the next disruption. In this preview chat, we discuss what are the key points and learnings we’ve had so far. In...
by Minter Dial | Jul 11, 2017 | Responsibility, Social Media
Last week (July 3), Tencent’s market value dropped $15 billion. On a total base of $330 billion, that’s a 5% haircut. The media’s narrative was that the stock price drop was due to an announcement by Tencent that they were going to limit the amount...
