Mills Scofield

JANUARY 29, 2024

Since I can’t ignore my “professor” tendencies, there are a lot of questions for you to reflect on, ask yourself and your team, and use to guide the development of your product or service. You’ll learn about some famous and not-so-famous successes and flops, highlighting obvious and not-so-obvious causes and solutions.

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Books Mentor Book Value Positioning 103

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 12, 2020

He never yelled at me again (though he did keep yelling at the rest of the team), and became one of three manager-mentors that shaped my career at Bell Labs and AT&T — and taught me to manage others and myself. He’d handle the politics; I’d handle getting the work done with my team. Lesson 2: Light the Fire and Clear the Path.

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Management How To Mentor Politics 121

Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 3, 2014

My mantra, Experiment-Learn-Apply-Iterate , is a way to start building trust in one''s own capabilities and one''s team (pg 29). Culture Innovation Leadership Management Strategy Teamwork Trust Trust Across America' Get the book, try out these various ways and you''ll be surprised at how it works!

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Teamwork Innovation Strategy Books 136

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 12, 2020

He never yelled at me again (though he did keep yelling at the rest of the team), and became one of three manager-mentors that shaped my career at Bell Labs and AT&T — and taught me to manage others and myself. He’d handle the politics; I’d handle getting the work done with my team. Lesson 2: Light the Fire and Clear the Path.

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Management How To Mentor Politics 91

Mills Scofield

MARCH 25, 2013

You can find more of Tanveer's sagacity on leadership and the workplace here , follow him on twitter @TanveerNaseer , and keep up on what he's thinking here. In the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egyptologists have found carved in the stone blocks the names of some of the work teams that helped to build this monument.

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Development Follow-up Creativity Short-term 172

Mills Scofield

MARCH 25, 2014

I hope it makes a difference for you, your teams, your people. Authenticity Culture Fairness Innovation Integrity Justice Leadership Switch and Shift Trust' because the difference can be positively profound. Where you place certain words has a big implication on what is important which impacts the culture.

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Innovation Positioning Team Leadership 134

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. The icons are memorable and can become part of your team’s lexicon for thinking about customers. Yes, definitive.

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Business Model Handbook Definition Education 132

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 26, 2015

Thank you so much, Barbara Kimmel and team for your trust! Culture Integrity Leadership Top Thought Leader Trust Trust Across America' Honored, humbled and daunted to be named 1 of the top 100 Thought Leaders on Trust by Trust Across America.

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Team Leadership 70

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. Additionally, FrankSonnenbergOnline was named among the “Best 21st Century Leadership Blogs.” Critique your actions. Take the time to reflect on your experiences and learn from them.

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Learning-by-Doing Follow-up Books Innovation 132

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 21, 2013

couple of years ago, Sharon’s financial research team moved to another bank. They did it because what mattered most, at the time, was that their team stayed together and made the transition a success. ” Sadly, Sharon and her team are not alone. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. Walk your dog.

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Career Open-book Follow-up Globalization 176

Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2013

We knew early on that building a strong team and bringing in key leaders would be essential for our growth. Thinking about how this might relate to our organization, we saw that a team of Tylers and Dans would be tremendously weak. The diversity of species naturally cycles nutrients, protects the soil, and manages insect populations.

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Talent Management Management Supply Chain NGO 167

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 11, 2015

She suggests that collaboration develop in an organic way, rather than something being imposed on a team. Innovation Leadership Strategy Success Trust collaboration' Watch how your people collaborate," Mills-Scofield advises. Assessment Culture Inc.

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Tools Innovation Strategy Training 70

Mills Scofield

MAY 8, 2012

But moreso, Kona is not your average 24yr old - her poise, wisdom, leadership, business acumen and management skills are on par As a C.V. GOALS Haiti uniquely emphasizes developing local capacity and youth leadership so its efforts are sustainable. Not your average thesis.

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Innovation Business Model Goal Class 170

Mills Scofield

MARCH 11, 2013

I'm re-posting from the archives because the issue of real, authentic collaboration has been coming up a few times a lot lately, especially in light of the Vulnerability & Trust Leadership Paradox radio show John Hagel , Saul Kaplan and Mike Waite did with me a few weeks ago.

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Long-term Kaplan Commitment Team 98

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 6, 2013

Because the culture at Geneca encourages personal and professional development and there was buy-in from the leadership team, the preconditions for innovation already were in place. Early in 2012, the team created ideas to impact each of these areas and voted on innovation as the common denominator. The Innovation Group is Born.

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Innovation Incubator Brand Document 130

Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Just goes to show what great leadership can do! Projects-With-Purpose: Bringing a Community Volunteer Program to Lif e Chatham and Geneca teams at work. In a nutshell, The Little Give teams up Edelman employees to develop PR programs for local nonprofits focused on children and youth. I was optimistic. Thumbs Up From the CEO.

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Ryan PR Project B2B 130

Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 10, 2013

My weekly article ‘catch-up’ included several on corporate culture and leadership that were all just common sense and the Golden Rule. So, Why do we have to elevate basic decency in how we treat one another to great rules for leadership? Where was I when these fundamentals of human kindness became leadership virtues?

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Human Capital Constraint Media Banking 141

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Neenah’s General Manager (GM), Jerry Hessel, knew that team-based manufacturing improved performance, so he felt he had to do something. The team met monthly and always went through the actual training that employees would go through. Union leadership couldn’t say they didn’t know what was going on.

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Handbook Committee Training Tools 87

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 27, 2020

My hope for you is that, in one of the rare calmer moments, any learning from and during this time can take root, so when you come out on the other side, you can use that new wisdom and insight for good - for your family, your team, your company, yourself. Wear your mask, keep your distance, be safe.

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Planning Skills Team Organization 121

Mills Scofield

JULY 8, 2013

This is the type of engagement we need to get economies growing, build trust and a sense of ownership for our Millennials as they grow into leadership positions. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. We are now a team of 30 ‘ student venture capitalists ’ from all universities in Montreal, Toronto and Halifax.

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Entrepreneur Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Project 192

Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Wyatt won Oberlin College's Creativity & Leadership Fellowship of $30,000 to start the business after graduation. Wyatt Hayman : After winning $30,000 from the Oberlin College Creativity and Leadership Fellowship our startup team set up in Lake Tahoe, California to build a business. Optimism for this generation rules! __.

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Learning-by-Doing Creativity Brainstorming Skills 138

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 8, 2014

When she arrived in South Africa, she quickly realized that, despite months of communication and planning, the community partner did not want her or her team of student volunteers there. Within just a few days of the start of a 10-week project, she became concerned for the safety of her team. Natasha pulled the plug.

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Entrepreneur Innovation Incentives Mentor 124

Mills Scofield

MARCH 19, 2013

Books provide the courage and stimulus to move people’s molecules around, and when they’re consumed by teams in a deliberate way, the can cause team’s to align to create change – a prerequisite to making innovation happen. Or come hang with us on Twitter via #StellaFarm! And it goes like this.

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Innovation Govindarajan Human Capital Health Care 138

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Additionally, machine-centered teams from the first year became cross-functional, focused at a higher level. The teams initiated this themselves, without being asked to do so. Each team had to provide quarterly reports to the Steering Committee on their progress. Lean teams are everywhere.

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Committee Training Teamwork Long-term 101

Mills Scofield

MAY 27, 2014

In business, as you lead your team and guide your organization, do you ever ask yourself “ Is it worth it?” When you cast a clear vision and share it with your team, you are free to lead well, and run your race as you see fit. Culture Goals Leadership Purpose Significance Strategy' ” What are your goals?

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Goal Entrepreneur Training Strategy 161

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 7, 2013

She is co-president of Brown''s student initiative to incorporate the arts into STEM, STEAM and a project manager on Brown''s solar decathlon " Techstyle Haus " team, of which about half are women! An oh, she also is a pole vaulter on the track and field team.

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Process Engineering Constraint Education 150

Mills Scofield

APRIL 28, 2013

These reasons are why I believe that Allen Kramer and Gladys Ndagire , plus their team, have created something special. Brown University Culture Innovation Leadership Runa SEEED Social Entrepreneurship Social Impact Investing Social Innovation Virtues-Values'

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Innovation Conference Metrics Education 171

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 26, 2020

My hope for you is that, in one of the rare calmer moments, any learning from and during this time can take root, so when you come out on the other side, you can use that new wisdom and insight for good - for your family, your team, your company, yourself. Wear your mask, keep your distance, be safe.

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Ryan Engineering Planning Skills 91

Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Either as a member of the product team or as the "gate keeper," you might make this decision based on a gut feeling, prior experience, a partial understanding of the ecosystem, OR, increasingly, based on Product Intelligence. The layering of these unstructured voices with other structured data sets (i.e.: Reduce Investments of Time + Money.

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Stage-Gate Productivity Products Innovation 128

Mills Scofield

AUGUST 17, 2012

If individuals aren’t allowed to dream, how can teams and organizations? Dreams and innovation are not solo events; they are team sports. How you encourage, support, reward teams around common passions will determine how well you delight your customers…and your people.

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Innovation Safe Harbor Sports Education 146

Mills Scofield

MAY 13, 2012

Menasha Packaging: Meet the163-year-old family-owned company who’s leadership team reinvented their business model and re-invigorated their culture 7 years ago, putting their careers on the line. Lesson : A key to success is the 21 st Century is embracing, leveraging and balancing paradox. What drove this level of risk?

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Business Model Constraint Innovation Licensing 154

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 16, 2013

When we met in January 2012, my idealist entrepreneurial dreams hit pavement as David shared their years of market experience in mobile recruitment while managing a large and rapidly growing team in over four countries. You then have a better chance at creating a more permanent place for yourself within the team.

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Short-term Innovation Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 187

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Our defeated team immediately took to a new project with our Professor’s encouragement. With a few members of our original group and one new collaborator who had left another project team to join ours, a fresh assembly of people set out on yet another project that next afternoon. The true test was lifting it up, though.

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Class Project Long-term Engineering 178

Mills Scofield

APRIL 7, 2014

Re-prioritize responsibilities and tasks to allow the person or team to complete the request. Culture Execution Implementation Leadership Strategy Virtues-Values accountability commitment' Make sure that you’re present to support the request and remove or mitigate obstacles. Don’t just add on.

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Commitment Project Bottom-up Learning-by-Doing 175

Mills Scofield

APRIL 10, 2017

What if our cross-functional teams, at various steps in project or product development, examined why, what and how they were doing, what was working and why, what wasn't and why, and discussed all the things that could go wrong from that point on and why they could go wrong and how they could mitigate or eliminate those risks?

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Project Productivity Products Process 70

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

” Far from the desertion of tedious tasks or monotonous busywork, this means giving team members control and independence, and constantly cleaning the edges of my own plate that, almost by definition of the role, will constantly overflow. He divides his time between the US and Bamako, Mali.

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NGO Short-term Delegation Finance 175

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Have you empowered teams to actually accomplish their objectives? When you give someone the “power” without the tools and teams to make it real, frustration and anxiety increase which decreases morale, productivity and of course passion. Do you hold people accountable for things they cannot control or direct?

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Power Due Diligence Education Budgeting 171