23.2. Launching the Mentoring Program
The fundamental idea behind Smart Mentoring was to create mentoring relationships between central and peripheral players in the Knowledge Lab network. Central people would be able to offer connections and better integrate their peripheral mentees into the flow of organizational knowledge. The peripheral people would bring unnoticed or undervalued skills and perspectives more clearly into the organization's problem-solving discussions. Everyone would benefit from a greater degree of knowledge-sharing overall.
23.2.1. Enlisting Mentors and Mentees
We chose the people to participate in the Smart Mentoring program on the basis of the ONA findings. To form the mentoring pairs, we identified 22 very central individuals ...
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