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Why Mentoring Matters

Mills Scofield

Hello Deb, The EP [Entrepreneur Program] leaders would like to thank you again for speaking to us at Ben and Jerry's. Ashley: " To be entrepreneurial is to be creative--thank you for reinforcing that Deb!". A personal goal is to give as many students as possible the opportunity catch, and learn from, the entrepreneurship bug.

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Why I'm Glad I Got Fired

Harvard Business Review

Words like "productivity," "efficiency," and "innovation" are defined by goal posts of our own creation: number of units shipped, revenue and profit, EPS and shareholder return. And while she was right (and I secretly knew it), I kept arguing with her about the goal being the goal, and the goal being about the win.

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