Mills Scofield

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What Works Better - Obedience or Commitment?

Mills Scofield

All of Frank’s books and his blog are ‘must reads” and “must gives.” Some folks think it doesn’t matter what management style you use as long as you achieve your goals. By its very nature, there’s no need to force people into compliance ; if you play your cards right, they’ll manage themselves. Control is an illusion.

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Changing One Thing Changes Everything

Mills Scofield

Her posts on this blog always get a ton of hits. It covers my love of social media and obsession with photo management to the lifecycle of events and what it is like to try to change an organization from the inside. Many of you are now familiar with the wisdom of my friend Jessica Esch. Are you my tribe?

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Interview on Use Your Inside Voice

Mills Scofield

Grateful to Karen Catlin for asking my views on managing and parenting on her blog.

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Nextsensing: Aspire and Ye Shall Find

Mills Scofield

Joseph is Professor of Entrepreneurial Management at IE Business School in Madrid, Spain and in the IE-Brown Executive MBA program as well as Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. Aspiration, however, is tricky when it comes to management. That’s great — as long as they are also aspiring.

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Let Them Fail

Mills Scofield

” This phrase opened Natasha Blackadar’s summer blog post about her first social venture. As any resourceful project manager would, she utilized her network to create new opportunities for her team elsewhere in the country. Reading her blog posts makes it clear that Natasha was heavily invested in this venture.

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Simple Can Be Great!

Mills Scofield

Elizabeth Weber ''s recent visit to Lowe''s provided many insights she''s recorded in a great blog on Medium. She was the Branding Strategist for Speak Your Mind Foundation and served as a Design Researcher and Product Manager to the President of Brown University in the creation and launch of BrownConnect.

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How To Stay Relevant & Have Impact

Mills Scofield

Many of you may familiar with Dorie’s view on the subject through her Forbes and Harvard Business Review blog posts. It is a book leaders and managers should share with their people and encourage and support them in pursuing. when to call, how to find out nicknames, etc.)

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