Mills Scofield

MARCH 2, 2020

Borrowing an example from the Innovation Network, a highway construction company’s outputs are project design and the number of highway miles built and repaired. Let’s define outputs as the stuff we produce, be it physical or virtual, for a specific type of customer—say, car seats for babies.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 1, 2019

Doors are one of my favorite examples of lousy design. If you’re willing, the next time you get to a door, stop. What’s your initial reaction? Shouldn’t opening a door be intuitive? We really need instructions to go through a door? Our world is filled with poorly designed products we use every day without thinking twice.

Globalization 91

Globalization Productivity Products System 91

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

That’s why dishwashers are the perfect example. struggle with micromanaging, criticizing (vs. critiquing), taking vs. giving credit and giving vs. taking blame. It takes maturity, desire and compassion to unlearn these habits. How many of you have asked your kids to load and unload the dishwasher? Raise your hands.

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Management Micromanagement Learning-by-Doing Maturity 136

Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

But few came from seeing customers firsthand, so we ended up using ourselves as ‘examples’ – not good. Some we just thought up. Some came from AT&T corporate product management & marketing. AT&T corporate product managers and marketers [.].

Innovation 142

Innovation Marketing Productivity Products 142

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 7, 2018

They are examples, not instructional guidelines (which are 1 size fits all). It’s important to let stories soak into us and to find ways they can inform & improve our own lives and experiences. Stories are how we learn from the very beginning. Stories aren’t a “do this, do that, then this happens.”

Kaplan 91

Kaplan Guidelines Learning-by-Doing Media 91

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

That’s why dishwashers are the perfect example. struggle with micromanaging, criticizing (vs. critiquing), taking vs. giving credit and giving vs. taking blame. It takes maturity, desire and compassion to unlearn these habits. How many of you have asked your kids to load and unload the dishwasher? Raise your hands.

Management 91

Management Micromanagement Learning-by-Doing Maturity 91

Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

What if we started to infiltrate our education system with tools, lessons, examples, opportunities to Try so that our children could become Tryers at earlier and earlier ages. Perhaps it is fear, time, who knows… but perhaps we could develop a support structure to allow them to become Tryers , in their own time?

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Look around our professional and personal lives; examples are everywhere. The Hedgehog’s Dilemma is a metaphor for the problems we have developing relationships. My friend and colleague, Ian Gonsher , uses design thinking to solve the dilemma with applications for humans of all ages.

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Engineering Workshop Magazine Creativity 70

Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Look around our professional and personal lives; examples are everywhere. The Hedgehog’s Dilemma is a metaphor for the problems we have developing relationships. My friend and colleague, Ian Gonsher , uses design thinking to solve the dilemma with applications for humans of all ages.

Engineering 70

Engineering Workshop Magazine Creativity 70

Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2013

Runa is a wonderful example of a B-Corp, doing well and doing good. More specifically, we decided to model our staffing approach from two examples: one cultural and one environmental. The second example that reinforced this strategy for us was our understanding of Amazonian ecology. We drink the tea in our home all the time.

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Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

I’m sure we all know examples of this in many aspects of our lives. Last month, my friend Whitney Johnson wrote a great post about entitlement being an innovation-killer. Please read it if you haven’t. In some corporate cultures, Innocide is brazen and in others incredibly polite and subtle.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Okay, that’s a harsh example – although I would submit that those entering the workforce leave recruiters with this impression far too often.). And a party-animal whiner who never chose to grow up and then blames everyone else for their insensitive outlook on life is typically NOT a good fit. Self-assess your current online brand.

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Letter Workshop Advice Career 194

Mills Scofield

JULY 27, 2014

Positive leaders allow their example to speak for itself. Let your positive example inspire others to be and do their best. So how can you use your personal influence to become a more effective, positive leader? I recommend you begin by putting into practice the following principles: Embody Optimism.

Positioning 170

Positioning Power Leadership Energy 170

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

For example, ask yourself, if you had the opportunity to perform an activity again, how would you do it differently? Football teams spend countless hours watching game footage to determine how to improve individual performance and build a winning team. Take the time to reflect on your experiences and learn from them.

Learning-by-Doing 132

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Mills Scofield

MAY 13, 2012

What examples do you have of Rebellious Optimism? And, as I post this, we are in the sunny Wisconsin woods, continually innovating the future. Lesson : Don’t use a company and management’s age as artificial constraints for innovation. Please share and think about telling your story at Rebels At Work !!!

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Business Model Constraint Innovation Licensing 154

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 26, 2014

It took days of trial and error, for example, just to find the right timbre for the drums on "Darkness on the Edge of Town," but the young Springsteen (still in his twenties) wouldn’t stop pushing until everyone grasped exactly the sound he was looking for. Leading by example, he inspires others to be creative.

Learning-by-Doing 129

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 9, 2014

Examples include Method Products, Patagonia, Ben & Jerry’s and two of my favorites, Runa and Susty Party. While there are good reasons for some companies to remain non-profits, there is no reason that a socially-impact minded business cannot be for-profit.

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Mills Scofield

AUGUST 27, 2013

” Students are not learning languages at a rate that supports global interests, even those labeled “critical languages” by our State Department— Bengali, for example, is among these 13 languages. How can we begin to address this deficit if we cannot even find opportunities to learn these underrepresented languages?

Education 169

Education Globalization Politics Learning-by-Doing 169

Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

For example, if sales are sagging this year, many executives fall back and use the same techniques they used last year when sales were more robust. “Let’s do what we did last year — only faster!)

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Industry Definition Discount Public Relations 181

Mills Scofield

MARCH 25, 2013

Their example serves as a testimony that we don't need to 'have it all' to feel a sense of fulfilment or achievement. Instead, they were made simply to demonstrate the workers sense of accomplishment and purpose that they derived from the simple, but back-breaking work of hauling these large stones into place.

Development 172

Development Follow-up Creativity Short-term 172

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 21, 2013

For example, after the team returns from a business trip, take turns working from home one day. It doesn’t take much, but over time, these moments add up. Communicate with, collaborate with and cover for each other so that what matters at work and in life gets done, flexibly and creatively. Instead of commuting that day, pay your bills.

Career 176

Career Open-book Follow-up Globalization 176

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 19, 2014

The articles articulate how American math curricula virtually prohibit the viewing of beauty in mathematical ideas, while simultaneously failing to provide meaningful everyday examples. The first point has to do with the chronology of math education.

Education 132

Education Metrics Creativity Learning-by-Doing 132

Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 3, 2013

My most recent commissioned painting, a coelacanth, is a great example of this. Once I’ve stared at a seemingly random pattern on a fish’s back for hours and hours, there is always a point at which I realize that it is not random; there is a pattern here, its just a very complicated one. And then I paint it.

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Mills Scofield

AUGUST 27, 2012

Another rare example of utilizing market forces to achieve social good can be seen in the Clinton Foundation’s efforts to drive down the prices of HIV Anti-Retrovirals (ARVs). Instead it is about effective investments and growth opportunities that hardly require a sacrifice from the wealthy.

Incentives 171

Incentives Marketing Microfinance Entrepreneur 171

Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 5, 2014

In our hair product story, for example, the product team needed a good understanding of their target consumers in order to validate their hair product needs before they progressed to the next phase. You can use traditional research methods and interview 25 people or perhaps create an expensive program and bring 500 people to focus groups.

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Stage-Gate Productivity Products Innovation 128

Mills Scofield

APRIL 20, 2013

For Celia Grace, one example of this was adapting our designs so that they worked with the local silk. ” Instead, developing a product takes place alongside developing the supply chain, which will take extra time, more communication, and probably more money. This will take longer than you think.

Supply Chain 159

Supply Chain Fashion Proposal Learning Curve 159

Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

For example, since software projects often require enhancements and ongoing support, we needed to have a clearly defined project end point. Who could argue with a program that gives Genecians another reason to love working for their company, makes clients feel good about us, and helps the community? Thumbs Up From the CEO.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 16, 2013

So, if you are passionate about a social or economic issue – unemployment, to take a salient example – the best first step is to explore the structural causes of the issue and next examine what solutions have been developed. Learn from the past success and failures.

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Short-term Innovation Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 187

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Josh uses the example of a book – we don’t re-read a page, we read the next one and next one. So how is it that we haven’t thought to change how we are structured to align ourselves with these markets and customers? Amazing when you stop and think about it, isn’t it?

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Mills Scofield

AUGUST 20, 2014

Mark and Ted make it clear, with concrete examples, that the Social World’s implications for 21 st Century business are enormous: Customers have more power than they’ve had before; Settling for mediocre won’t work!

ROI 164

ROI Open-book Diversity Globalization 164

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Pfizer’s CEO, for example, is British. Corporate Mythology. Decrying tax inversion as unpatriotic misses the point. The idea of an “American” corporation is increasingly becoming a myth.

Finance 131

Finance Incentives Education Pharmaceuticals 131

Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

We tried to live the example that we wished Congress followed: we had made a commitment to ourselves, to each other, and to our chapters to craft an agenda by working together across difference. At times, we disagreed passionately on ideological grounds. And we honor that disagreement as a necessary part of a responsibly partisan process.

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