Mills Scofield

MAY 20, 2013

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.

Education 164

Education Innovation Course Learning-by-Doing 164

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 27, 2020

As leaders, we’re constantly tuning the pulse of the organization to keep it going, growing, hopefully thriving. 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. We have to be as strong as steel and vulnerable ( elastic ?)

Planning 121

Planning Skills Team Organization 121

Mills Scofield

AUGUST 7, 2012

Every business, organization, entrepreneur, C-suiter, yes, humans need ballast - guiding principles, missions and core values to help navigate the big wild sea. ’ It’s something that is critical to your organization and business, to your customers, your employees, your stakeholders and yourself.

Wilde 174

Wilde Entrepreneur Human Needs Stress 174

Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2012

Quick, tell me your organization’s business model. Your organization, whether for-profit or not-for-profit, has a business model. His organization, The Business Innovation Factory (BIF), is a vehicle for sharing real life stories about business models that have transformed industries and lives. Therein lies the problem.

Kaplan 151

Kaplan Business Model Levitt Christensen 151

Mills Scofield

APRIL 7, 2014

Since “failure is not an option” is still the modus operandi in most organizations and the odds of success are never certain, accepting accountability can be very risky. Communicate why the request is important to the organization, to both of you, and how it’s fulfillment will make a difference.

Commitment 175

Commitment Project Bottom-up Learning-by-Doing 175

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Think about how and when you can try this in your organization…and see what kind of difference it can make! They start with positive comments, ask thoughtful questions to understand, and provide clear, actionable feedback tied to the ultimate user/customer.* Of course there is a ton more to learn critiques, but this is a start.

Class 127

Class Engineering Project Course 127

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Kris Ansin is the executive director of Mali Health Organizing Proje ct - an amazing company increasing access to primary maternal and child healthcare in Mali. It’s a troublesome and common trend in nonprofits but particularly in a small organization with a startup attitude. Both are great. To find success, we have to fail.

NGO 175

NGO Short-term Delegation Finance 175

Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2013

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.

Talent Management 167

Talent Management Management Supply Chain NGO 167

Mills Scofield

AUGUST 12, 2013

My job was to distill complexity and draw people into the organization by explaining the issues, describing the work, and highlighting the great things happening in our community. I founded United Way of Greater Portland’s LUbrary —the LIVE UNITED storytelling library—and forever fused my personal and professional lives.

Storytelling 189

Storytelling Library Creativity Content 189

Mills Scofield

APRIL 14, 2019

Today’s systems are complicated and complex* requiring different leadership capabilities throughout the organization. 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 173

Software Supply Chain Airlines Leadership 173

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 22, 2012

The fact is, humans resist change so organizations do too. And because of that, they not only resist, they aren’t organized to absorb and adapt to change. We need to connect to others inside and outside our organizations – at all levels – with our partners, suppliers, customers, their customers etc. Guess what?

Long-term 157

Long-term Books Resistance Tools 157

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 26, 2020

As leaders, we’re constantly tuning the pulse of the organization to keep it going, growing, hopefully thriving. 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. We have to be as strong as steel and vulnerable ( elastic ?)

Ryan 91

Ryan Engineering Planning Skills 91

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 17, 2012

So… What are we like in our own organization? So… In your organization, take a look and see if you’ve given those with the responsibility the actual power and authority to be responsible. The abject rudeness and disregard for another’s opinion and time is horrendous.

Power 171

Power Due Diligence Education Budgeting 171

Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 12, 2012

While it may be ‘easier’ in the short term to aid and abet, it will destroy your organization in the long term. Apply to yourself first, your team, and your organization. Trust declines, morale declines, and the company’s ability to attract and retain talent erodes. What is the outcome ?

Short-term 170

Short-term Long-term Morale Politics 170

Mills Scofield

MAY 27, 2014

For the entrepreneur, small business=owner, and leaders of any organization, does it seem like a lot of work? In business, as you lead your team and guide your organization, do you ever ask yourself “ Is it worth it?” Do you ever ask yourself a similar question in your business? ” What are your goals?

Goal 161

Goal Entrepreneur Training Strategy 161

Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

what if the best thing for your business, your organization, is to shovel the caviar, not the sh&t? No one argues with you. It's usually the right thing to do. Who in their right mind would keep the sh&t and shovel the caviar? That's crazy!!! You've spent years investing in that rare and unique caviar. It's a valuable niche!

Constraint 118

Constraint Resistance Business Model Politics 118

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Think about how and when you can try this in your organization…and see what kind of difference it can make! They start with positive comments, ask thoughtful questions to understand, and provide clear, actionable feedback tied to the ultimate user/customer.* Of course there is a ton more to learn critiques, but this is a start.

Class 91

Class Engineering Project Course 91

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 22, 2014

I’ve used the VPDesign extensively with entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and for customers outside the organization and inside the organization. Just as in Business Model Generation, this book is a tool to use daily to think about your business – internally and externally.

Business Model 132

Business Model Handbook Definition Education 132

Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

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.

Ryan 130

Ryan PR Project B2B 130

Mills Scofield

JULY 27, 2014

In the process, I too have learned that in every organization something works and change can be proactively and positively managed. As a leader, you have the opportunity every day to inject energy and passion into your team or organization. Yes, these things are important and necessary, but they are insufficient in themselves.

Positioning 170

Positioning Power Leadership Energy 170

Mills Scofield

AUGUST 17, 2012

We know what happens to organizations that don’t innovate - look at the 1990 Fortune 100 list. It provides a roadmap for risking to and realizing dreams – both for individuals and more broadly organizations. If individuals aren’t allowed to dream, how can teams and organizations? public education).

Innovation 146

Innovation Safe Harbor Sports Education 146

Mills Scofield

APRIL 13, 2014

Can you make them real for your organization? SavvyIntern shares a post about the lessons I learned from best bosses I ever had (originally published in HBR ). Are these lessons familiar to you? Give it a try! Thank you YouTern for sharing this! Bosses Career Advice Culture Leadership career intern young professionals'

Career 110

Career Leadership Advice Organization 110

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 15, 2014

We can all agree it’s important and should be a habit we adopt in our organizations, but few of us do it. What if we started doing Tree Cause Analysis ! Root Cause Analysis ( RCA ) – sounds like a blast doesn’t it?

Analysis 119

Analysis Root Cause Analysis Metrics Innovation 119

Mills Scofield

JULY 30, 2012

Since "failure is not an option" is still the modus operandi in most organizations and the odds of success are never certain, accepting accountability can be very risky. Communicate why the request is important to the organization, to both of you, and how it's fulfillment will make a difference. What if I can't deliver?

Commitment 125

Commitment Bottom-up Project Learning-by-Doing 125

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

What do you really want done, and by when … and what is best for your employees and the organization? Or are you undermining them? Next time you give an assignment, stop and think about the dishwasher. Maybe clean dishes, put away with breaking.

Management 136

Management Micromanagement Learning-by-Doing Maturity 136

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 16, 2017

I'm honored, proud and very humbled to be part of this powerful group of 40 Women over 40 , organized for the 5th year in a row by Christina Vuleta and Whitney Johnson. 40 Women over 40 ~ 2017. Wow - just wow! Check out this amazing group of women doing amazing things!

Education 70

Education Learning-by-Doing Career Power 70

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

We don’t think of the military as a STEAMy organization, but parts of it are. Matt Fritz about how STEAM was critical to re-inventing the Afghan Air Force! Yes, some parts of our military are design thinkers! Thank you Matt & Switch and Shift. "

B2C 126

B2C Technology B2B Innovation 126

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

We need to see how things are organized, structured, laid out, used, not used and under what conditions, circumstances and contexts. Without getting out and observing reality first-hand with all our five senses, we risk optimizing our organization into extinction. * [link] quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/26/everything-counts- einstein /.

Efficiency 142

Efficiency Engineering Trends Marketing 142

Mills Scofield

JUNE 24, 2013

It powerfully portrays many of today’s issues: poverty, inequality and inequity, the struggle of self-organized groups versus command-and-control and liberty to name a few. So what do we, our people, our organizations do? Make sure your organization''s culture doesn''t either. None of these options are good. We shut down.

Innovation 129

Innovation Engineering Policies Follow-up 129

Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Some organizations have an innovation process that includes assessment of successes and failures – but they measure what’s already gotten into the innovation pipeline, not what didn’t even make it in! Since this is difficult, how can we start to reduce our organization’s (and our own) Innocide rate?

Innovation 118

Innovation Politics Process Examples 118

Mills Scofield

APRIL 14, 2019

Today’s systems are complicated and complex* requiring different leadership capabilities throughout the organization. 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

Mills Scofield

APRIL 10, 2017

So often, when a project or product doesn't go well or fails, organizations do "post-mortems" - they go over what went wrong, why, sometimes rushing to blame people first instead of looking at processes. What if we started doing pre-natals instead of post-mortems?

Project 70

Project Productivity Products Process 70

Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

These three steps (observing-organizing-originating) are the heart of the nextsensing process, which strives to leverage our cognitive, emotional and social capacities to unravel new meaning from current data and events. Thus, the counterweight to disruptive ambiguity is opportunity foresense.

Industry 181

Industry Definition Discount Public Relations 181

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

They detail the why, how, when, and what in transforming the culture and flattening the organization. Think about how you can adapt some of these ideas for your own organization. Vala and Brad share the culture’s benefits to their top line, bottom line and most importantly, human line.

Leadership 150

Leadership Servant Leader Bottom-up Technology 150

Mills Scofield

MARCH 19, 2013

Men and women can, kids can, and yes, even organizations can innovate. I’m quite clear its my life’s calling – to wake people up to what’s possible and within reach. Innovation isn’t a buzzword. It’s a human birthright. What I’m Working on Now: Our Books as Tools Campaign.

Innovation 138

Innovation Govindarajan Human Capital Health Care 138

Mills Scofield

MARCH 31, 2014

The subtleties, nuances, intonations, and gestures have profound Portland Press Herald 3/26/14 effects on leaders’ credibility and on organizations’ success. They listen, learn, and understand what is needed to lead an organization. We all know language is key to leadership. They don’t make their opinions facts.

Learning-by-Doing 142

Learning-by-Doing Engineering Entrepreneur Price 142

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 11, 2015

She suggests that collaboration develop in an organic way, rather than something being imposed on a team. Successful collaboration isn''t just about providing the necessary tools and training for collaboration," she explains, "but also about building trust with employees." Watch how your people collaborate," Mills-Scofield advises.

Tools 70

Tools Innovation Strategy Training 70