Mills Scofield

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How to Have an Impact without Electricity and the Internet

Mills Scofield

Kona shares the starkly different definitions of ‘basic needs’ between the USA and Haiti and how it affects her productivity and impact…a lesson for us all! I began traveling to Haiti as a volunteer in 2007 and moved here in 2010 to launch an organization called GOALS. Mostly this has to do with living in Haiti.

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Rebellious Optimism = Innovation

Mills Scofield

Kona Shen graduated in 2010 with an honors thesis on the impact of foreign aid on Haiti’s environment and ways the international community could improve aid efforts. There are amazing young people usurping government’s roles in productive, efficient and effective ways. Not your average thesis. Perhaps Gov.

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Death by Data

Mills Scofield

Data helps us figure out to eliminate unnecessary steps, improve productivity, reduce costs, etc. Without getting out and observing reality first-hand with all our five senses, we risk optimizing our organization into extinction. * [link] quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/26/everything-counts- einstein /.

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The Economic and Social Impact of Language

Mills Scofield

And, in 2010, Arne Duncan announced that 95% of American college students in language classes were taking European languages. ” Through shared language, students can become sensitive global activists and pursue productive community partnerships. A year ago, I hadn’t even heard of some of these languages. This is paralyzing.

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50 Ways to Leave your Lover: Keep Failing Til the Last Thing You Try Is Successful

Mills Scofield

In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world. Through a myriad of questions our knowledge increases and we begin to play “what ifs” with potential customers as product solutions appear in our mind. Million; not big, but interesting.

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Genecians Journey Into Corporate Giving

Mills Scofield

Cone proclaimed in 2010 that “cause marketing as we know it is dead” “Slapping a ribbon” on a product, website, or advertisement was now perceived as inauthentic. It began when I came across an article about two years ago by a well known person in the world of corporate giving, Carol Cone.

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Lessons From BIF-7

Mills Scofield

What I see is the opposite – incredible innovation in products, services, processes and business models. He urged us to focus on projects, products, services that can inject optimism into the world. What if we took 1 product or service and asked ‘5 W’s 1 H’ for injecting optimism. What could you do?

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