See-through Management : Transparency Inside the Company

31st March, 2010 - Posted by Minter Dial - 5 Comments

Breaking Glass Ceilings and Bringing Transparency Inside the Company.  Part IV of a 4-post series on Transparency In the realm of communications, transparency is at the opposite end of politics, the supreme usurper of energy.  If there is one thing that any size organisation needs, it is the optimal utilisation of ever reduced resources and, specifically, » Read More

Momentum Effect by Jean-Claude Larréché (INSEAD)

8th December, 2009 - Posted by Minter Dial - No Comments

I attended a presentation last week by Jean-Claude Larréché, famed marketing professor from INSEAD (still teaching there and also was there when I attended in 1993).  Jean-Claude gave a short and punchy overview of the key points of his latest book, “The Momentum Effect” which was published by Wharton School Publishing last year and is » Read More

GEF 2009 Ipsos Study on Women in Business in France – 10 measure manifesto

24th November, 2009 - Posted by Minter Dial - 2 Comments

I attended a GEF (Grandes Ecoles au Feminin [1]) conference yesterday, here in Paris, at which I listened to the results of an Ipsos study entitled, “How to improve the mix of women in management [in France].” You can read the French results here. This was the fourth time that a study had » Read More

Why do we sleep? Should we nap?

26th September, 2009 - Posted by Minter Dial - 6 Comments

I have written in the past about sleep, in particular how interesting and revealing the study of sleep was for me at University (see here). What has always baffled me is that Sleep Researchers still have never scientifically proven why adult human beings need to sleep. We do know that if we » Read More

Finding a CRM Voice – The Right Values, Meaning & Frequency

7th December, 2008 - Posted by Minter Dial - 6 Comments

Customizing your Real Message & Finding a CRM Voice? As I mentioned in the prior post, I believe that the consumer world is in the midst of a true paradigm shift. In these dire economic times, there is a huge likelihood that the ongoing increase in the share of time and mind of the Internet » Read More

Common Factors in Web 2.0 & Sustainable Development

6th November, 2008 - Posted by Minter Dial - 9 Comments

Web 2.0 and Sustainable Development – A Way of Life Via personal predilection and, as it happens, in my work, I am embedded in Web 2.0 functionality. When I take a helicopter view of web 2.0, especially as it applies to the corporate world, I associate the 2.0 mentality with the desire to interact, to » Read More

Facebook Moskovitz’s departure means egg on the face…

11th October, 2008 - Posted by Minter Dial - No Comments

Facebook – what book value? Don’t take it at FaceValue! The news is out that Facebook is in the throes of a severe management crisis. Five of the top managers have left, including co-founder Dustin Moskovitz (October 3 2008) who has taken with him star engineer and ex-Googler Justin Rosenstein (see here Bit-tech.net news or » Read More

Information Revolution or Evolution – Michael Wesch Kansas State University

18th October, 2007 - Posted by Minter Dial - No Comments

Information R/evolution. The Age of Information is in revolution or just evolution? That is the question behind this entrancing, 5′28 film by Michael Wesch (Assistant Professor at Kansas State University), posted on YouTube on October 13th. This is bound to be a film that will circulate well. It presents the » Read More

Lost work hours from Facebook alone?

11th September, 2007 - Posted by Minter Dial - 1 Comment

The BBC reports yesterday from the ongoing BA (British Association) Festival of Science at York University conference that Facebook is estimated to cause 130 million pounds PER DAY in lost productivity. Naturally, after one considers the lost productivity of phone calls and emails, it is only likely that one would analyze the lost productivity » Read More

 

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