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Mentoring Both Start-Ups and Students in Innovation and Strategy
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Mentoring Both Start-Ups and Students in Innovation and Strategy

Deb Mills-Scofield
Business Innovation Factory, 2017
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Business consultant Deb Mills-Scofield brings a winding personal story full circle to illustrate the responsibilities that experienced mentors bear. Learning doesn’t belong to the young, she emphasizes, so all professionals should seek out and nurture “blue lobsters,” individuals who challenge convention and champion new ideas. getAbstract suggests this pleasing, useful video to anyone interested in mentoring people or thinking creatively.

Take-Aways

  • Common wisdom says that humans learn through the guidance of older, wiser mentors. That’s true, but no one is ever done learning, and older individuals can also learn from the young.
  • “Blue lobsters” are extraordinary people who view the world differently and influence it in some way. These young, free thinkers challenge convention and take risks.
  • Though blue lobsters are rare, all organizations employ them. Search for them, and when you find them, mentor, support and free them.

About the Speaker

Business consultant Deb Mills-Scofield mentors students in Brown University’s Entrepreneurship Program.

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