Mills Scofield

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Lessons from Amazonian Culture and Ecology for Talent Management

Mills Scofield

Their business model is unique and there are so many lessons for our businesses and organizations from their story. As ill prepared as I was, my passion for creative communication and intercultural exchange gave me a unique basis for becoming a manager and running what is now a 70 person organization in only 3 years.

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Innovating Higher-Education

Mills Scofield

Nabeel Gillani started Coursolve.org to connect organizations using MOOCs with students around the world to solve real world problems. Coursolve is a platform that connects organizations with courses to empower students to solve real-world problems. Over 100 organizations received, on average, about 4 final strategic analyses each.

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How Do You Calculate ROI?

Mills Scofield

Unfortunately, many organizations still believe ROI and ROI m are either incompatible or unrelated. I have seen this time and time again with my own clients. This is false. Focusing on ROI m means focusing on outcomes , which results in improved ROI, the outputs.

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Why Do We Teach Math So Badly?

Mills Scofield

Teaching by problems is constraining; elegant theories and patterns get squeezed into templates of problems, and the student will find it difficult to pull ideas from diverse fields to solve new and unseen challenges. Lukas has also served as an organizer for Brickworld Chicago , the largest LEGO fan convention in North America.

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Genecians Journey Into Corporate Giving

Mills Scofield

The CBA is a business support organization chartered with promoting economic growth and job creation in an underserved area of Chicago’s south side. This got me thinking: What would a program like this look like at Geneca? The benefits of the program were undeniably compelling so I dug further.

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If You Haven’t Gone Social, You Should Be Very Very Worried

Mills Scofield

The broader, deeper and mover diverse your network, the larger the impact you can have. ” OPEN is how we connect diverse expertise around the world to solve wicked problems. Does your organization really care about your customers? I measure my professional success by my ROI mpact - my form of ROI.

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