Mills Scofield

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The Transformative Power of Positive Leadership

Mills Scofield

In the process, I too have learned that in every organization something works and change can be proactively and positively managed. Namely, there is actually greater power, energy and opportunity in allowing our successes to crowd out the unsuccessful. Make inquiry your priority.

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Reinventing Management - A Process

Mills Scofield

As we look around us, 20th C regimes, institutions and businesses are failing. It seems everyone is writing a book on management needs to change. A few stand out, at least for me (see below for my recommendations).

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What Works Better - Obedience or Commitment?

Mills Scofield

As such, encourage people to participate in the decision-making process so they buy into the strategy, rather than being told what to do. Real power isn’t the result of controlling people; it’s created by empowering folks and forging commitment. People want to make a valuable contribution rather than be treated as a cog in the wheel.

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5 Lessons from an Office on the Edge

Mills Scofield

As a millennial leader, I see the ways our generation’s coming of age in the workforce has prepared us to lead from these spaces, to support a more inclusive and empathetic framework, and to embrace failure as an inevitable process towards achievement. Delegation. For me, this is a positive development.

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How To Disrupt the Tech World

Mills Scofield

Vivek and Farai have curated a collection of personal, powerful, inspiring, encouraging, disruptive, and challenging stories of women who grabbed the status quo by the horns. The rapid design-prototyping-iterating process resulted in several potential hardware and software products. Fast-forward ~ Innovating Women launches today!

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Rebellious Optimism = Innovation

Mills Scofield

Their story of doing well and doing good is one of the most powerful I’ve seen in blending innovative business models, techniques, processes and social impact. One of my favorites is Runa , a B-Corp started by some Brown soccer players, classes of ’08.

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Will You Leave a Mrk?

Mills Scofield

Educating girls is to most effective and powerful approach to fight global poverty. The final and definitely the most difficult process of this all was finding a manufacturer. This was the most draining and scariest process of creating Mrked because we knew our selection would impact the quality of the cases.

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