Mills Scofield

AUGUST 7, 2012

Red, Right, Returning – when returning from the sea, make sure the red buoys are on the starboard (right) side to stay in the channel. This phrase was drilled into my head as a kid when I learned to sail, leaving the secure confines of our harbor for the big wild sea. Every business, organization, entrepreneur, C-suiter, yes, humans need ballast - guiding principles, missions and core values to help navigate the big wild sea.

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Wilde Entrepreneur Human Needs Stress 174

Mills Scofield

AUGUST 27, 2012

This is a guest blog by Chia Han Sheng, Brown University '14, co-founder of MedInternational. You will be excited and optimistic about the passion, compassion, thought, analysis, and implementation of this generation. See what two not yet 20 year olds were able to do and sustain. MedInternational was started in 2011 to raise the standard of healthcare in resource-poor regions of the world by sharing and maintaining appropriate hospital technology in these areas, initially Zanzibar, Tanzania.

Incentives 171

Incentives Marketing Microfinance Entrepreneur 171

Mills Scofield

AUGUST 17, 2012

One of the most amazing leaders I’ve ever met, Mike Waite, President of Menasha Packaging Corporation , believes his job is making sure his people get to live their dreams. While profit, revenue, shareholder value etc. are critical, without his people’s ability to turn dreams into reality – for customers and for themselves – there is no revenue, profit or anything else…simple…and too rare.

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Innovation Safe Harbor Sports Education 146

Mills Scofield

AUGUST 13, 2012

After some tweet and email discussions with Anne Marie Slaughter and Cali Williams Yost about Anne Marie’s article on The Atlantic , and the uproar about Marissa Mayer becoming Yahoo’s CEO while she is pregnant, I decided to weigh in. Finally, we are having an honest discussion of “having it all” instead of perpetuating a fairly tale.

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Mentor Agility Innovation Travel 142