Why Mentoring Matters
Seeking counsel from somebody is the sign of a good leader. Having a person appear in your life and offer to mentor you is a stroke of luck that you should latch on to with both hands.
During the mid-1990s, when I was working in the UK, I held the role of marketing manager for Olivetti. At the time, we were developing a product in conjunction with British Telecom (BT). It involved a desktop PC, a phone, a video camera and a computer unit, all connected to an ISDN line. (That’s the original version of the digital phones we now know and love!) It allowed people to host videoconferencing calls, to share remote documents, and to annotate documents that were shared on a virtual whiteboard with other users anywhere around the world. We called it the P.C.C.—Personal Communications Computer.