Mills Scofield

JANUARY 31, 2011

It seems everyone is writing a book on management needs to change. Julian Birkinshaw, co-founder of The Management Lab with Gary Hamel, has a new book, "Reinventing Management: Smarter Choices for Getting Word Done" that is clearly one of the best. A few stand out, at least for me (see below for my recommendations).

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Hamel Process Management Books 101

Mills Scofield

JULY 19, 2011

In May, I was honored to be part of Steve Denning's workshop on his Radical Management principles for redefining 21st Century management. Recognition that we need to find a new way to ‘manage' work is gaining ground.

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Management Innovation Workshop Energy 105

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Steve Denning begins his book, The Leader's Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century with a quote from John Hagel, John Seely Brown and Lang Davison 's 2009 Shift Index to lay the foundation of the problem we face: "Remarkably, the return on assets for U.S.

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Innovation Management Books Disruptive Innovation 114

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 7, 2015

Thank you Vala Afshar and Ryan Needing for including me in the Huffington Post article and the Collaboration & Mobility Assessment tool. Companies need to get on board if they want to keep their employees on board with mobility and collaboration. It was great to be a part of this!

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Ryan Management Innovation Tools 70

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

My latest post at Harvard Business Review - please join in the discussion!

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Management Review Strategy Innovation 98

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 10, 2023

So much fun talking about managing chaos in today’s business world. What a great way to start the new year! Getting my (virtual) 5-time jacket on # DisrupTV on Vala Afshar and R. Ray Wang ’s 1st episode of 2023 and 305th episode overall! You can see the episode here and below. p.s. you can find my other 4 times here (yes, blatant boast).

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Management Innovation Leadership 91

Mills Scofield

JUNE 19, 2023

Some folks think it doesn’t matter what management style you use as long as you achieve your goals. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a parent, manager, or leader of the free world, command and control will never outperform a team of people who are involved and committed to a cause. And of course, we conclude that they’re to blame.

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Commitment Follow-up Morale Micromanagement 91

Mills Scofield

APRIL 19, 2021

Be willing to take time ‘off’ your career path for a sabbatical if you want; Change on a dime by putting in a nickel; Experience!

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Learning-by-Doing Advice Career Skills 148

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 28, 2019

The media, fans, and managers will be focused on key stats like on-base and slugging percentages, defensive runs saved, walks/hits per inning pitched and ERA … and of course Grand Slams and Home-Runs! Hank Aaron ~ All time MLB RBI Hitter (2,297) Picture Credit USBData. Opening day is March 28th.

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Innovation Media Course Company 129

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 27, 2020

We’re trying to balance being calm, consistent, resilient at work for those we lead and manage and/or at home while inside we may be angry, frustrated, and exhausted. Since COVID-19 started, we’re juggling many different jobs, tasks, emotions, needs, skills, ideas, plans, people, and circumstances simultaneously.

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Planning Skills Team Organization 121

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Career Paths Creative Mind Culture Design Education Innovation Leadership Management career' And what are you doing with it? © Crockett, Johnson “Harold and the Purple Crayon.” ” 1955 HarperCollins.

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Creativity Education Career Innovation 128

Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

We talk about her love for books and reading, her time at Brown University (past and present), cognitive science, learning and development, and management principle, and how they can all be applied personally and professionally.There are many lessons throughout this conversation.

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Innovation Strategy Course Books 112

Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 3, 2014

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! And if you want, buy Vol 1 & 2 as well (ok, i''m in Volume 1 too)).

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Teamwork Innovation Strategy Books 136

Mills Scofield

APRIL 7, 2013

She had to craft a story that made sense to skeptical hiring managers, stressing the management experience she’d gained in the military (at 24 years old, she was in charge of eight $30 million Apache helicopters, plus the 30 people who managed them) and the rapid learning made possible by her early leadership experience.

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Leadership Brand Review Learning-by-Doing 184

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

As my grandfather, my own mentor in management, would remind me, “delegate, but don’t abdicate.” Culture Education Innovation Leadership Mali Mali Health Management Maternal Health Millennials Social Entrepreneurship Strategy Talent Management Wall St career'

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NGO Short-term Delegation Finance 175

Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

This seems like a no-brainer, something we read in all the ‘effective meeting’ manuals, right? So, given our level of zoom fatigue, why not try it?

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Library Tactics Letter Metrics 127

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 28, 2019

The media, fans, and managers will be focused on key stats like on-base and slugging percentages, defensive runs saved, walks/hits per inning pitched and ERA … and of course Grand Slams and Home-Runs! Hank Aaron ~ All time MLB RBI Hitter (2,297) Picture Credit USBData. Opening day is March 28th.

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Innovation Media Course Company 91

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 22, 2014

Character Culture Innovation Leadership Lean Start-up Management Strategy Trust' That’s why learning how to inexpensively and quickly Experiment-Learn-Apply-Iterate is critical to building trust."

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Uncertainty Innovation Strategy Management 115

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

After seeing Carl Størmer''s story at BIF9 and an intense & casual chat with my friend, and daughter''s jazz voice teacher, Kim Nazarian of the New York Voices , I have a very different view of management, leadership, creativity, innovation and the music of life. Please read and comment.

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Innovation Creativity Management Leadership 87

Mills Scofield

APRIL 14, 2019

And I mean Leadership, not "Management Plus" , from those leading the various physical, hardware, software, etc. And certainly, proactively notifying airlines and pilots that new training was required should have been a no-brainer. design teams, to procurement, supply chain, etc. all the way across and up to the CEO.

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Software Supply Chain Airlines Leadership 173

Mills Scofield

MARCH 14, 2014

Bosses Character Culture Integrity Leadership Lessons Management Strategy' Here are four traits I learned from the best (and almost only) bosses I ever had and hopefully taught my people."

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Strategy Management Leadership 126

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 5, 2014

Culture HumanBiz Innovation Leadership Management Risks Shawn Murphy Switch and Shift' Shawn Murphy used my quote to spur our conversation on Work That Matters : " When we don’t give our people the space to take calculated risks, learn, apply, and iterate, we are really risking our future." What a chat! Listen here.

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Innovation Management Leadership 110

Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

So even if it feels uncomfortable, look for even just a small way can you use the “Power of the Ask” in your network — for someone you work for, with or manage. Make this your year of the Law of Accelerating Returns.

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Power Health Care Sports Reference 91

Mills Scofield

APRIL 19, 2021

Be willing to take time ‘off’ your career path for a sabbatical if you want; Change on a dime by putting in a nickel; Experience!

Learning-by-Doing 91

Learning-by-Doing Advice Career Skills 91

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 26, 2020

We’re trying to balance being calm, consistent, resilient at work for those we lead and manage and/or at home while inside we may be angry, frustrated, and exhausted. Since COVID-19 started, we’re juggling many different jobs, tasks, emotions, needs, skills, ideas, plans, people, and circumstances simultaneously.

Ryan 91

Ryan Engineering Planning Skills 91

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 23, 2014

RCUS Culture Innovation Leadership Management Millennials Networking Strategy Virtues-Values mentoring' Putting my chats and stories together - thoughts? Thank you BIF, CXO-Talk, Switch and Shift, and UnleashWD!

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Mentor Innovation Strategy Management 87

Mills Scofield

AUGUST 13, 2012

or at least MS, making me the first, if not one of, to get to that level without the required degrees; Another measured his success on his people’s success (output) and impact (outcome); he was one of the most admired, and loved, managers and had one of the highest promotion rates. I love what I do.

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Mentor Agility Innovation Travel 142

Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

This seems like a no-brainer, something we read in all the ‘effective meeting’ manuals, right? So, given our level of zoom fatigue, why not try it?

Library 91

Library Tactics Letter Metrics 91

Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

This seems like a no-brainer, something we read in all the ‘effective meeting’ manuals, right? So, given our level of zoom fatigue, why not try it?

Library 91

Library Tactics Letter Metrics 91

Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

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

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Innovation Marketing Productivity Products 142

Mills Scofield

JULY 14, 2015

if you want to manage, keep reading those lists. It's not a set of prescribed turns to get to your destination. It's circuitous, it's emergent, and it requires thought. So stop with the lists and start with the thinking. If you want to lead, think.

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Innovation Management Strategy Leadership 70

Mills Scofield

MARCH 23, 2015

Because that was how I was managed and led from the start of my career, because that was really all I personally and gratefully knew, that was how I managed and led others; how could I know otherwise? Brown University Culture Innovation Jon Mertz Leadership Management Millennials Soul Sparks' Leo Tolstoy.

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Mentor Incubator Open-book Innovation 70

Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

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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Ryan PR Project B2B 130

Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

managers), we naively think we can control things, so we try to control things." While there is a risk to improvising and spontaneity, there is a greater, more insidious risk to control.” ” When I wrote a version of this in a recent Harvard Business Review post , it prompted a great deal of discussion. Continue reading.

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Efficiency Micromanagement Innovation Review 126

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Getting to know each other as individuals instead of “management” or “labor” increased trust, which increased collaboration. In fact, for the first time, management was invited to personal employee celebrations, like birthday parties! DMS : So, as you look back, why did you do it this way?

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Committee Training Teamwork Long-term 101

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 21, 2011

DMS: Jeff, why did the Neenah, WI complex’s management to ask you in to help? Jeff : The culture was good, but there was an ‘us v them’ tone in the complex, a union versus management mentality; nothing that would warrant a strike, but still not very collaborative. Jerry asked to help him. 5 Why’s).

Handbook 87

Handbook Committee Training Tools 87

Mills Scofield

APRIL 14, 2019

And I mean Leadership, not "Management Plus" , from those leading the various physical, hardware, software, etc. And certainly, proactively notifying airlines and pilots that new training was required should have been a no-brainer. design teams, to procurement, supply chain, etc. all the way across and up to the CEO.

Software 91

Software Supply Chain Airlines Leadership 91