As John Gardner observed years ago, “We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.”
We are faced with one such moment in history. It's our one-time only "experience dividend," where aging Baby Boomers in what used to be described as our "retirement years" can make a major contribution to the welfare of others. As the Boomer Generation leaves the workforce at a rate of 10,000 persons per day, we are presented with an unprecedented opportunity to drive positive change by bringing out the best in the generations that follow -- especially through mentoring.
And not just any old mentoring, but mentoring in multi-generational teams -- applying both the Virtual Group Mentoring and our Mentor-as-Changemaker models we’ve already created.
That's what Bill Drayton, the founder of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, calls a “pattern changing idea."
Let's start by linking two generations at either end of the age spectrum. Eventually, we will be calling on the intervening generations to fill in the gaps.
It's a “win-win-win.”
We are faced with one such moment in history. It's our one-time only "experience dividend," where aging Baby Boomers in what used to be described as our "retirement years" can make a major contribution to the welfare of others. As the Boomer Generation leaves the workforce at a rate of 10,000 persons per day, we are presented with an unprecedented opportunity to drive positive change by bringing out the best in the generations that follow -- especially through mentoring.
And not just any old mentoring, but mentoring in multi-generational teams -- applying both the Virtual Group Mentoring and our Mentor-as-Changemaker models we’ve already created.
That's what Bill Drayton, the founder of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, calls a “pattern changing idea."
Let's start by linking two generations at either end of the age spectrum. Eventually, we will be calling on the intervening generations to fill in the gaps.
It's a “win-win-win.”