On September 22, 2009
Want to Really Learn Something? Teach It
Now that you’re finally out of formal education after nearly two decades in school and have entered the workforce you might think that you’ve left teaching behind and moved on to mentoring. That’s a mistake if a recent post by Michael Schrage on the HBR Conversation Starters blog is correct. His contention: if you want to keep learning in the world of work, teaching others may have more value than mentoring. Schrage concludes that “‘mentoring’ is overrated as a human capital investment. I suspect that there are CMOs and CFOs who would become far more expert — and effective — in their roles if they took the time to explicitly teach people core skills and competencies in their specialty.” Schrage…
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