The Joy of Mentoring

Since 2016 is the 20th year I ’ve served as CIO, I’ve given a great deal of thought to the various careers I’ve had and the roadmap for the 20 next years of my working life.In my late teens and 20s I was an entreprenuer running a 35 person software company while doing my medical and graduate school training.  I was also a winemaker, home builder and engineer.In my early 30 ’s I was an Emergency physician, software coder, and data analyst.In my mid 30 ’s as a CIO, I focused on architecture, high reliability computing, and centralization of IT service deliveryIn my early 40 ’s, I focused on disaster recovery, interoperability, and educational technologiesIn my mid 40 ’s, I focused on security, national policy, and IT industry leadership.In my early 50 ’s, I’ve focused on social networking, mobile, analytics, cloud and innovationSo what will my mid 50 ’s bring?  Although in my previous incarnations, I ’ve written code, built hardware, and shaped architecture, it feels that this next stage of life should be about mentoring the people who will eventually replace me.Mentoring from those who came before me (Sensei is a Japanese honorific term that is literally translated as " person born before another ”) has always guided my path.  My parents were my earliest mentors. In my college years I worked for physicist Edward Teller and economist Milton Friedman, who had a great influence on me.  My undergraduate advisor was Condoleezza Rice,...
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