Mills Scofield

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How to “Manage” A Blue Lobster

Mills Scofield

He never yelled at me again (though he did keep yelling at the rest of the team), and became one of three manager-mentors that shaped my career at Bell Labs and AT&T — and taught me to manage others and myself. Many companies treat their employees as employees — nicely and kindly, even generously — but not as humans.

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How to “Manage” A Blue Lobster

Mills Scofield

He never yelled at me again (though he did keep yelling at the rest of the team), and became one of three manager-mentors that shaped my career at Bell Labs and AT&T — and taught me to manage others and myself. Many companies treat their employees as employees — nicely and kindly, even generously — but not as humans.

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What's Your Company's Family Tree?

Mills Scofield

Read it and see if you can create your own company's family tree! Getting to Know your Company “family” by Lisa Lehman. The most important question to me as a resource to our Employee Management team was asking our employee to provide an unknown fact about themselves that they were proud of.

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It’s Not Just Semantics: Managing Outcomes Vs. Outputs

Mills Scofield

Another story, for example: A food company has a new product, all the s’more ingredients in a box, and wants to make a big splash for the upcoming spring and summer seasons—but it’s up against some formidable competitors in the market whose brands are synonymous with s’mores.

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It’s Not Just Semantics: Managing Outcomes Vs. Outputs

Mills Scofield

Another story, for example: A food company has a new product, all the s’more ingredients in a box, and wants to make a big splash for the upcoming spring and summer seasons—but it’s up against some formidable competitors in the market whose brands are synonymous with s’mores.

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Lessons from Amazonian Culture and Ecology for Talent Management

Mills Scofield

studied indigenous Amazonian languages and Ethnobotany in college and managed to avoid taking any math, science or business courses (yes, I went to Brown University). Starting a business, let alone a beverage company, as an undergraduate was not something I had planned on doing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.

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Packaging up Innovation & Radical Management

Mills Scofield

In May, I was honored to be part of Steve Denning's workshop on his Radical Management principles for redefining 21st Century management. Recognition that we need to find a new way to ‘manage' work is gaining ground. These companies shun command-and-control!