Mills Scofield

MARCH 8, 2021

If you want to learn about, and learn how to apply, the latest in technology for impact, you must watch DisrupTV and follow Ray & Vala on twitter. This was my 3rd visit on DisrupTV !!

CEO 165

CEO Technology How To Innovation 165

Mills Scofield

MARCH 18, 2019

I spend most of my mentoring helping students figure out how to at least slow down the treadmill. Since they have no idea of life without being on it, they don’t know how to slow it down, reduce the incline or even dare ponder getting off. The few minutes students will relax and chill are few - they are viewed as ‘unproductive’.

Mentor 195

Mentor Banking Stress Consultative 195

Mills Scofield

APRIL 30, 2023

They are the epitome of how to create an amazing strategic plan that achieves their mission and vision in innovative ways will (hopefully) make them no longer needed. shutterstock I want to share the amazing work of Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio*.

Banking 172

Banking Constraint Strategic Planning Retail 172

Mills Scofield

MARCH 8, 2021

If you want to learn about, and learn how to apply, the latest in technology for impact, you must watch DisrupTV and follow Ray & Vala on twitter. This was my 3rd visit on DisrupTV !!

CEO 91

CEO Technology How To Innovation 91

Mills Scofield

APRIL 1, 2019

We learn how to work around the non-intuitive design and just use the easy-to-figure-out features. We really need instructions to go through a door? Our world is filled with poorly designed products we use every day without thinking twice. We’ve come to accept that this is the way it is. Take the USB Pointer for presentations!

Globalization 168

Globalization Productivity Products System 168

Mills Scofield

MARCH 2, 2020

What if a packaging company could help them strategize not just how to package the product for higher acceptance into the mass retail markets, but also where to place it on store shelves to get the most exposure? Yayoi Kusama, ICA BostoN. Through stories, we are able to empathize with our customers and recognize the outcomes they need.

Management 127

Management Travel Constraint Workshop 127

Mills Scofield

MARCH 18, 2019

I spend most of my mentoring helping students figure out how to at least slow down the treadmill. Since they have no idea of life without being on it, they don’t know how to slow it down, reduce the incline or even dare ponder getting off. The few minutes students will relax and chill are few - they are viewed as ‘unproductive’.

Mentor 91

Mentor Banking Stress Consultative 91

Mills Scofield

AUGUST 7, 2017

It’s our decision on how/when/why to scale our business and how to support and raise our family. Not many kids get that kind of experience! Morra Aarons-Mele feels that the definition of balance is up to us, not to society. It’s not the degree; it’s learning to learn. The world tells us the degree matters.

Entrepreneur 132

Entrepreneur Agility Sample Advice 132

Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

She taught me how to criticize without being critical, without even realizing I’d been criticized, and therefore motivated to change. She taught me how to prioritize what really and truly mattered. She taught me how to ‘present’ myself in public. She taught me that relationships matter more than stuff.

Career 184

Career Diversity Maturity Licensing 184

Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Sidney kushner & vala afshar I’ve been giving my “How to Network” talk lately which refers to this story, so I’m reposting it from my Harvard Business Review article - it is timeless. Vala is now at Salesforce, Twitter is X, and Sidney is still changing lives - the power remains. It is a gift that grows simply by sharing it.

Power 91

Power Health Care Sports Reference 91

Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

By making, we can see why systems matter and how to design them. Doesn’t this resemble our healthcare, education and other failing systems - as a bunch of parts nailed together instead of dovetailed? It doesn’t have to be big, it doesn’t have to be profound, it doesn’t need to be auctioned off by Sotheby’s.

Workshop 174

Workshop Learning-by-Doing Education System 174

Mills Scofield

MARCH 2, 2020

What if a packaging company could help them strategize not just how to package the product for higher acceptance into the mass retail markets, but also where to place it on store shelves to get the most exposure? Yayoi Kusama, ICA BostoN. Through stories, we are able to empathize with our customers and recognize the outcomes they need.

Management 91

Management Travel Constraint Workshop 91

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Alex Osterwalder & team have created the definitive easy-to/must-uses guide on how to create a compelling value proposition - Value Proposition Design. Yes, definitive. Any business is first and foremost about the customer, even though it seems so many have forgotten that.

Business Model 132

Business Model Handbook Definition Education 132

Mills Scofield

APRIL 1, 2019

We learn how to work around the non-intuitive design and just use the easy-to-figure-out features. We really need instructions to go through a door? Our world is filled with poorly designed products we use every day without thinking twice. We’ve come to accept that this is the way it is. Take the USB Pointer for presentations!

Globalization 91

Globalization Productivity Products System 91

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 22, 2014

That’s why learning how to inexpensively and quickly Experiment-Learn-Apply-Iterate is critical to building trust." Thank you Barbara Kimmel and Trust Across America - Trust Across the World for the opportunity to be part of #TRUSTGiving2014. Character Culture Innovation Leadership Lean Start-up Management Strategy Trust'

Uncertainty 115

Uncertainty Innovation Strategy Management 115

Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

If you are willing to share a bit of your blessings, consider giving to BakerRipley - they know what to do, when to do it, and how to it - for the long-term.

Business Model 70

Business Model Mentor Long-term Innovation 70

Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

By making, we can see why systems matter and how to design them. Doesn’t this resemble our healthcare, education and other failing systems - as a bunch of parts nailed together instead of dovetailed? It doesn’t have to be big, it doesn’t have to be profound, it doesn’t need to be auctioned off by Sotheby’s.

Workshop 91

Workshop Learning-by-Doing Education System 91

Mills Scofield

JULY 8, 2013

My quest to change student entrepreneurship on a global scale seeks to solve these challenges: how to engage students and the younger generation in entrepreneurship, and how to get them to build companies. Startups are the main drivers of economic growth.

Entrepreneur 192

Entrepreneur Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Project 192

Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

I’ve been in Lexington, KY these past 2 days watching entrepreneurs learn and discuss how to transform their city. Eric Patrick Marr, founder of The Lexenomics Group, brought a friend of [.].

Entrepreneur 118

Entrepreneur How To Kaplan Innovation 118

Mills Scofield

MAY 1, 2013

How to Stay Relevant and Have Impact. Thank you Dorie , Tanveer , Jessica and Chana for guest posting! Dorie Clark ''s What''s Your Leadership Narrative ? Tanveer Naseer ''s It''s Time We Develop a New Relationship with Work. Jessica Esch'' s It''s Obvious. Chana Scofield''s Planting SEEED''s of Innovation.

Innovation 87

Innovation Leadership Development How To 87

Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Throughout my career, I’ve been blessed with incredible mentors who, perhaps unknowingly, taught me how to mentor. I believe mentoring is a gift for the mentee and the mentor. It’s something I take seriously and joyfully. It is a paradox - an incredibly selfless thing that is also very selfish.

Mentor 123

Mentor Business Model Innovation Advice 123

Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Cultural differences – how to hug, how to politely eat a meal, and what to give as gifts – seem inconsequential in comparison. These can be learned by reading a book, but to become a person of the world, one needs to understand genuine relationships and respect how others think and learn.

Entrepreneur 170

Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing Library Mentor 170

Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

How to connect the dots. How to unlock potential. How to lead the way. What can we - in attempting to change society’s lived stories - learn from the art of telling stories? What can social change learn from “show, don’t tell”? That only goes so far.

Storytelling 70

Storytelling Education Project Learning-by-Doing 70

Mills Scofield

AUGUST 5, 2014

I have never flown a plane or sat in a flight simulator, but I’ve been teaching people how to fly for years. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. The University of Washington Announces Flying Lessons. This spring the Department of Communication at the University of Washington made it official by naming me their Flight Instructor.

Education 131

Education Class Audience Content 131

Mills Scofield

MAY 20, 2013

Every Friday, I try to remember how to multiply and divide 2-digit numbers as 9-to-11 year olds at St. I spent the past four years at Brown University learning how to play basketball from an elementary schooler and watching 12 year-olds in Providence channel their creativity into building computer games.

Education 164

Education Innovation Course Learning-by-Doing 164

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 12, 2013

The book’s practical wisdom, advice, and tools for how to take smart risks are critical. This is uncharted territory for many and Doug’s practical guidance will make it easier for us to learn how to and actually take smart risks.

Due Diligence 112

Due Diligence Definition Cost Innovation 112

Mills Scofield

MARCH 5, 2015

Assuming you have the technology and know-how to make it happen, these are precisely the conditions when speed is critically important. The business world has countless tools for planning and eking out process improvements for such journeys, and you probably already know how to use them well. Keep going. Don’t stop.

Tools 70

Tools Innovation Operations Engineering 70

Mills Scofield

MARCH 5, 2017

Learn how to code, make bookshelves, do graphic design, become a product manager for 3D-printed products, understand the Patagonian ecosystem, discover biomedical uses of Antarctic sea anemones, para-sail? Think about the next 2-3 years, maybe 5. What do you want to learn, explore, discover, and/or experience?

Guidelines 70

Guidelines Learning-by-Doing Planning Goal 70

Mills Scofield

MAY 29, 2013

I started by a helping Chicago-based design agency, Doejo, explore how to be more involved with cause-based organizations. I gave my self-made experiential education and the community project a title: The Leap Year Project. Learn: From self-made education to Prototype.

Education 166

Education Innovation Project Mentor 166

Mills Scofield

MARCH 5, 2015

Assuming you have the technology and know-how to make it happen, these are precisely the conditions when speed is critically important. The business world has countless tools for planning and eking out process improvements for such journeys, and you probably already know how to use them well. Keep going. Don’t stop.

Innovation 70

Innovation Tools Operations Engineering 70

Mills Scofield

MAY 8, 2012

Children are taught how to create safe, clean, healthy environments and bodies for playing soccer. The teams (adults, counselors, and kids) clean up their neighborhoods, collecting litter, trash collection, recycle, plant vegetable gardens, access mobile clinics, and build temporary shelters and public sanitation facilities.

Innovation 170

Innovation Business Model Goal Class 170

Mills Scofield

AUGUST 27, 2012

It’s funny that at different points of our dinner, we were all drawn to think about how to make nonprofits more financially sustainable, the one that Jayson and I run included. ” This question, of how to morph MED’s work into a social cause fuelled by market forces is something that is on Jayson’s and my mind daily.

Incentives 171

Incentives Marketing Microfinance Entrepreneur 171

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

Data doesn’t necessarily tell us how to make the problem go away because it doesn’t tell us why the problem is there in the first place. We have to actually get out of the office and look at how the problem is being addressed, not addressed, or not well enough by human beings.

Efficiency 142

Efficiency Engineering Trends Marketing 142

Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

If they loved the idea, they would likely give great feedback on how to make it better. And that’s from a summer where I went on my first ever hike and learnt how to swim! We should have really profiled who our product was targeting, and talked to as many people who fit that description as possible.

Learning-by-Doing 138

Learning-by-Doing Creativity Brainstorming Skills 138

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

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

Learning-by-Doing 132

Learning-by-Doing Follow-up Books Innovation 132

Mills Scofield

AUGUST 16, 2015

And that curiosity, that desire is just as true as all the swimmers and all their know-how. You have no clue how to do this.” On this subject, Mr. Bradbury gets the final word: “Jump off the cliff and learn how to make wings on the way down.” ” Or that still, small voice in us saying, “Go.

Library 70

Library Learning-by-Doing Policies Review 70

Mills Scofield

AUGUST 16, 2015

And that curiosity, that desire is just as true as all the swimmers and all their know-how. You have no clue how to do this.” On this subject, Mr. Bradbury gets the final word: “Jump off the cliff and learn how to make wings on the way down.” ” Or that still, small voice in us saying, “Go.

Library 70

Library Learning-by-Doing Policies Review 70