Mills Scofield

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Lessons from Amazonian Culture and Ecology for Talent Management

Mills Scofield

I 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). My business partner, Dan MacCombie, studied Marine Biology, so he was equally inexperienced in the art of management (unless we decided to employ invertebrates).

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I'm Standing Up, Not Leaning!

Mills Scofield

Having children has taught me so much about myself, about motivating the behavior you want to see, about managing and freeing people and the illusion (delusion?) Our world (and I firmly believe the fabulous Millennials will force this) needs to encourage and enable diversity of work styles, not just thoughts, gender, race, creed.

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"It's so Cute You're Doing a Startup!"

Mills Scofield

The panel ranged from age 27 to 55, manufacturing to services, for and not-for-profit, and diverse backgrounds. Both she and Sadie Kurzban try to do a handful of things very well, forget the rest and manage the guilt (does that ring true!). We had a wide range in views on this topic.

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Genecians Journey Into Corporate Giving

Mills Scofield

By Jess Chipkin , Geneca, Manager of Public and Community Relations. I wanted to learn more so I connected with Lisa Kimmel, General Manager of the Toronto office. The team was excited by a thumbs up from our CEO, Joel Basgall -- although he did offer some ideas on making the program more manageable. I was off and running.

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