Posts by Deborah Mills-Scofield
It's Not Just Semantics – Managing Outcomes Vs. Outputs
What’s the difference between outputs and outcomes? Some think the question is merely semantic, or that the difference is simple: outputs are extrinsic and outcomes intrinsic. I think otherwise; the difference between outputs and outcomes is more fundamental and profound.
Read MoreLessons in Rebellious Optimism
Innovators and entrepreneurs aren’t more risk-o-philic, they just define risk differently – not following one’s passion and purpose is a greater risk than financial or reputational security. Perhaps this is a basis for Rebellious Optimism.
Read MoreTrue Leadership IS Indeed Social
Every once in a while, you are privileged to witness the embodiment of what has become a buzzword, Servant Leadership – someone who is innately wired as a servant leader – authentic, genuine and sincere.
Read MoreIt's Not High School Anymore!
In the corporate world, I see behavior that wasn’t tolerated in ‘my day’ and I’d never tolerate…from my kids let alone colleagues, including the C-suite. The Harvard Business Review even ran an article “Rudeness at Work: What’s Your Story?†What the heck is going on? Are permissiveness and indulgence endemic everywhere?
Read MoreWhy am I a VC?
What is the role of a VC today? To help innovations that provide not just money and profit, but meaning and purpose become reality.
Read MoreThe Soul food of Innovation? Irritation!
Seriously! You know when you have an idea for a new business, product, service or process and you tell someone and they pick it apart? They tell you all the reasons it won’t work. You get really really peeved and annoyed and say to yourself, “They just don’t ‘get it’.� Frustrating isn’t it?
Read MoreNetworking As Survival
We think about networking as a very modern notion, with our accumulation of virtual “friends,†“followers†and people-who-might-be-useful-to-us-someday. To me, it is just an extension of what my people, my family have been doing since 70 AD – making critical connections that enable both our survival. The tools may have changed, but our reliance on the network has not. In fact, without the network, I literally wouldn’t be alive.
Read MoreReinventing Collaboratively
Using collaboration to innovate innovation – why not?
Read MoreCan Innovation Balance with Status Quo?
We think of Innovation and Status Quo as polar opposites…but are they really?
Read MoreIs your innovation glass half full or empty?
Have you ever known anyone who explicitly says that innovation is important? No! So listen carefully for the magic word – BUT. Some of you know how much I love to challenge the status quo so here’s my theory…
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