In 2008, Barack Obama made history when he announced his running mate (Joe Biden) via text message. Remember when text messaging seemed so new?
You may have heard that we bought a building on South Main Street on Fort Worth’s Near Southside. Like many, you might be wondering why we would make the move from the vibrant restaurant- and hipster-encrusted streets of Magnolia Avenue to the seemingly desolate no man’s land of South Main.
Reverse mentoring is an informal phenomenon when the “young whippersnapper” enlightens the leadership of a company about this newfangled technology that’s taking over the world, like how do “The Twitters” work and how to keep Siri from being a smart-ass. Personally, I don’t feel like that’s the role of reverse mentoring. Sure, there are benefits in being the social media expert or being able to talk about the Gen-Y market, but as the young employee at a company, wouldn’t you rather be an “up-and-comer,” not a “whippersnapper”?
