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Better Together
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Better Together

by Jonathan Sposato
December 2017
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
208 pages
5h 3m
English
Wiley
Audiobook available
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3 Solution 2: In It to Win It: Supporting Women's Development

Reverse Mentoring

Photo illustration of paper lanterns.
1. a rough cut, blow, or stroke.
 
  • a tool for rough striking or cutting, e.g., a mattock or a miner's pick.
2. informal
  an act of computer hacking.
  • a piece of computer code providing a quick or inelegant solution to a particular problem.
  • a strategy or technique for managing one's time or activities more efficiently.
  • “there's one easy hack to avoid alienating women at your company: try reverse mentoring”

When I invited Monica for lunch, I asked her to please pick a place she had never been but always wanted to try. “Ramen Man” was one of those tiny hole‐in‐the‐wall places you sadly stop going to once you're out of your twenties, simply because you want good service…. But it was authentic, Japanese owned, and delicious in a way that makes you suspicious. Don't ask, don't tell …

Photo illustration of a web page on a laptop screen displaying the images of two men (one of them is obscured, extreme left) and a woman. The name of the woman is Monica Nickelsburg and she is a digital producer.

Something in my gut was gnawing at me about Monica's impact on the GeekWire team, and I desperately wanted to engage face to face. My highly smart business partners John Cook and Todd Bishop wanted to give her more responsibility, but somehow my gut was saying no. Feedback from my business partners at GeekWire was that Monica had come from a prominent family in Malibu, raised in a household ...

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