Mills Scofield

JUNE 17, 2012

After all, the stakes are pretty high: people’s livelihoods, families, safe working environments, taxes paid to schools, police, etc. He is one of the most innovative, creative, ‘out-there’ thinkers I’ve ever met and one of the most dependent on routine and habit. Please share what you discover.

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Strategic Planning Innovation Environment Creativity 189

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 19, 2014

Halmos ’ Mathematics as a Creative Art. Both authors espouse mathematics as a creative, thriving field, but bemoan its opaqueness and terrible methods of teaching, with the former being largely a result of the latter. But the classroom can be a gently guiding force.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 7, 2014

So, we whittle down the scope, involve others so blame can be shared, make resource requests we know won’t fly, or let our fear hold us back from really creative solutions. Let’s create the environment where it’s easier to have it be the norm than not. Originally published in Harvard Business Review.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 6, 2013

From this we developed an action plan for the year, starting with the development of a charter statement for our new innovation initiative: Innovation Charter: The innovation initiative is to foster a culture of innovation, creativity, and teamwork within Geneca. providing time-codes to track innovation work), environment (e.g.

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Mills Scofield

JULY 30, 2012

So, we whittle down the scope, involve others so blame can be shared, make resource requests we know won't fly, or let our fear hold us back from really creative solutions. Let's create the environment where it's easier to have it be the norm than not. What if we can't do it or do it right or something goes wrong?

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Commitment Bottom-up Project Learning-by-Doing 125

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Today this message is manifested in contemporary business literature described as everything from “Voice of the Customer” to “Leveraging Core Focus” to the vernacular of “Fishing where the Fish are” At Bettcher, few in the company would know that “Acres of Diamonds” is the foundation for our product development (..)

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