Reverse Mentoring: Getting the “Tech-generation” as mentors to your senior team!!

Sep 3, 04

Consider the following statements:

  • “For the first time in history, we have youth knowing more than adults about something central to society, and that’s technology”, said Dennis Harper, who founded Generation www.Y, a national student computer training program, with a grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
  • “Recently, I was with a young researcher, albeit one that was a bit unusual, that had actually wired a web browser into his eyeglasses. As he was having a conversation with me he was actually bringing up my web page to read about me. This was a bizarre experience, but except for watching his eye movements, I was pretty much unaware that while he was talking to me he was also reading about me. I was even unaware of how he was using his left hand in his pocket to cord in keystrokes to bring up my Web page, while seamlessly talking with me. I was completely blown away that he could do these things in
    parallel and relatively undetectable to me” John Seely Brown
  • “Executives are beginning to realize that knowledge isn’t a one-way street. It’s in everyone’s best interest to share expertise”, Jerry Wind, Director of the Wharton Fellows Program.
  • Today, if organizations truly want to maximise the potential of its people, they must consider Reverse
    Mentoring and even take it a step further: consider a partnership of the youth and seniors. The current times are demanding a set of skills and capabilities that the 30 under generation seems to be naturally blessed with and is essential for anyone who does not wish to go the way of the dinosaurs.

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