Experienced professionals sometimes suffer from an overdose of experience… and age! They are known to wish for the drive and imagination they had when they first started out. In his book Mentoring Reversed: The Road to Creativity and Imagination, bestselling author Peter Gregoire gives us insight into what benefits a programme of reverse mentoring can bring to a company. He points out that an over-reliance on experience can hold back innovation, and he asserts that much of what we call experience has a sell-by date.
Reverse mentoring is the cure for an excess of experience and age. Turning traditional mentoring on its head, reverse mentoring brings youth, energy and imagination to the offices of C-suite executives who have lost touch with the people they used to be. The book is also a lesson for HR professionals on how to retain developing talent and reintroduce the vital force that is the wellspring of a company’s success. HR models are described and assessed, analysing the path of innovative dynamism from beginning to end.
In Mentoring Reversed, leaders are shown how they can once again be an instrument of change rather than a barrier to it. In this masterpiece of corporate and personal wisdom, Gregoire illustrates that to achieve self-actualisation, we must move beyond ‘deficit needs’ (our needs for food, water, emotional validation and so on) and achieve the level of self-fulfilment that marks one out for greatness. The reader is shown how reverse mentoring is part and parcel of this process, citing notable examples of how it has changed the world.
You will come away from this book with enhanced knowledge on:
- The limits of experience
- The inspiration of youth
- The origins of mentoring
- How cross-generational exchanges have changed history
- The ingredients of genius
- Breaking away from the confines of experience
- Achieving true purpose
Peter Gregoire is General Counsel of AIG Insurance Hong Kong Limited. Responsible for all legal, regulatory and corporate governance issues at the company, he also serves as commercial lines legal counsel for the firm across the APAC region. In addition to his work with AIG, Gregoire is an Honorary Lecturer at Hong Kong University where he works as a part-time tutor for the Commercial Dispute Resolution Elective on the PCLL course. In addition to writing discourses on business leadership and personal renewal, Gregoire writes fiction and has published two novels.
The Road to Creativity and Imagination
Paul Arkwright
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