Mills Scofield

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

Mills Scofield

This is a story about leaving “our lover”, the industry we know and seeking success in the unknown. Where We Came From and Why We’re Successful. More valuable than this success is the realization that diamonds are sparkling within our reach. We were rightfully proud and we celebrated our success.

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Thank You For Your Service (My Proudest Guest Post Ever!)

Mills Scofield

The town, “Tehachapi, CA,” was familiar—as it was the town my family and I adopted when we were assigned to Edwards AFB in 2011. In 2011, Phillip Carter wrote an article in the Washington Post , entitled “For Veterans, is ‘Thank You for Your Service’ Enough?” I drew my standard-issue Gerber?

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Innovating The Brick-and-Mortar Injustice Infrastructure

Mills Scofield

Take, for instance, payday lenders: a study by the Insight Center for Community Economic Development found that in 2011 “the burden of repaying [payday loans] resulted in $774 million in lost consumer spending and 14,000 job losses. [1]

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Innovation High-Five

Mills Scofield

The innovation initiative was born from our Organizational Growth Team, a cross-functional internal team formed in 2011 to focus on investing in Genecians, evolving our capabilities, and predictably delivering value to clients. The Innovation Group is Born. Each of the 15 participating Genecians had about 3 minutes to pitch their idea.