January, 2011

Mills Scofield

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Lens Shifting: Leading Indicators for Innovation

Mills Scofield

Recently, my friend Jackie Hutter and I did a workshop on Leading Indicators for Innovation from 2 aspects: 1) how can you look around you for leading indicators of areas ripe for innovation; and 2) what are leading indicators in your innovation process itself. Both are important, the first is more ‘fun’ so we’ll discuss it first and save the 2nd for another post.

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Happy or Valuable New Year?

Mills Scofield

21st century capitalism is shifting focus from making money to making meaning (ends vs. means, trailing indicators v leading indicators). This is good and necessary. However, ‘happiness' is starting to dominate discussions about 21st C capitalism, even in governments' measures of economic growth. While it is important to find happiness in life, make no mistake, even in the 21st C, business is all about value, not emotion.

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Reinventing Management - A Process

Mills Scofield

As we look around us, 20th C regimes, institutions and businesses are failing. It seems everyone is writing a book on management needs to change. A few stand out, at least for me (see below for my recommendations). Julian Birkinshaw, co-founder of The Management Lab with Gary Hamel, has a new book, "Reinventing Management: Smarter Choices for Getting Word Done" that is clearly one of the best.

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