deb mills scofield
Lovely, lovely, woman, as you will see if you read through her work. Met her at bif. Just found out she’ll be speaking at bif9.
Some great insight, as she writes..
My mother and grandparents fled the Nazis in Eastern Europe, bribing the American Consulate to make quotas. Virtually all members of my family, over sixty people of all ages, were killed at Auschwitz. The few family members who escaped — a cousin sent to London to live with relatives, an uncle who fled to Israel (then Palestine), another who survived work camps in Budapest, another who escaped barefoot running through forests and ended up in Australia, another who fought in the French Resistance, and another who was liberated at Auschwitz in 1945 — formed a worldwide network that was requisite for survival.
Because of my background, I’m hardwired to network.
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DEBORAH MILLS-SCOFIELD
Deb Mills-Scofield is a partner at Glengary LLC, an early stage venture capital firm in Cleveland, OH, and an innovation and strategy consultant. Her patent from AT&T Bell Labs was one of the highest-revenue generating patents ever for AT&T & Lucent. You can follow her on twitter @dscofield.
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Deb hosts a super interview on trust with John and Saul.
great_innovators_think_lateral
We need to break out of thinking that is solely based on what we know, what we assume, and what we’ve experienced.
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Deb Mills-Scofield (@bluelobsternets)9/11/13 7:05 AM
Honored RT @MarkTruelson: Wonderful article on @dscofield a woman who espouses LOVE always.Thanks @JesseLynStoner businessinnovationfactory.com/weblog/deb-mil……
How many people end conversations with clients by saying, “I love you” or giving them a hug and a kiss? Deb Mills-Scofield does. At the end of the day, when the work is done, she ascribes to Martin Buber’sI-Thou philosophy: we exist only in the way we encounter others.You needed to know someone in order to escape,” she says.Her own family history has made her believe in people, not rules.t tell her that at the age of 22, with the cachet of her Bell Lab experience behind her, she can’t walk uninvited—and without a graduate degree—into any executive’s office at AT&T and speak her mind. Hierarchies make no sense to her; they impede innovationMills-Scofield grew up in Rumson, N.J., where she and her sister attended public schools, but every Tuesday, her mother took them into Manhattan to visit the museums. The girls were also encouraged to take another day off every week—to stay home and play. When the school superintendent called Mills-Scofield’s parents to express his concern about their daughters’ frequent absences, Dr. Mills asked what their grades were. “A’s,” the superintendent informed him. Her father replied, “Oh, good—it’s working!“My favorite line to my clients is, ‘So, where is it written?’” she says. “Challenging orthodoxy is a central theme for my whole life, which is all tied up in the network. I view life as an experiment: learn, apply, iterate. That’s what your network is for.”
Love and the network in an I-Thou world
tweets from her talk:
as @dscofield speaks… obvious how much she is loved #bif9
@dscofield i come to bif6 and my network has never been the same #bif9
@dscofield the network is not about you/me but about going up to the other.. #bif9
@dscofield be intentional. look. take a thou perspective. #bif9
@dscofield design for random collisions – of unusual suspects – @skap5
@dscofield a network is nothing if you do not share it.. #bif9
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be you. 