September, 2010

Mills Scofield

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ROF: Return on Failure & Gen-Y, Gen-Z

Mills Scofield

This is the first of a series of blogs I'm going to do on ROF: Return on Failure. It is a work in progress, so please comment, discuss, disagree, share your thoughts. Earlier this month, I attended BIF-6 and the impact it's having on so many of us continues to endure. One of the storytellers, Ntiedo Etuk, started a company, DimensionU that makes interactive video games to teach kids math, science and other subjects.

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BIF-6 Summed Up: Optimism-Hope-Trust-Innovation

Mills Scofield

I'm still trying to process the last week; a wonderfully relaxing and productive (not an oxymoron) sabbatical on the dock in Maine, a day at Brown with terrific kids (I'm ready to go back) and BIF-6. If you are ever, ever able to attend BIF's annual conference, spare nothing and go. It will be one of the best things you ever do on so many levels.

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Mentoring: Who really benefits more?

Mills Scofield

Last year, I volunteered to participate in Brown University's Women's Launchpad Program which pairs women alumni in industry (me) with senior women for mentoring in career and graduate school planning. My mentee, Sarah, was a Mechanical Engineering major from the Boston area and leader on the Women's Crew Team. Our love of Brown gave us an immediate common ground and we quickly found others.

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HR's Strategic Role in Innovation

Mills Scofield

Historically, HR has not played a very strategic role in innovation. This needs to change. HR needs to support the culture change to enable innovation; and the upcoming generation isn't going to settle for an ‘administrative-only' role. Innovation is primarily a social thing. Really. While processes are important, ideas come from interactions between and among humans.