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August 2005 When Big Hair Met Big BlueGood mentors come in all colors, Symantec CEO John Thompson told the Black Business Students Association in March, and the best are the ones who, as they said in the seventies, tell it like it is. Thompson entered the business world in 1971 as IBM’s first African American salesman in Tampa. He arrived full of energy and enthusiasm, but dressed in a leisure suit, not quite the uniform of that era’s—and that famously staid company’s—corporate culture. “I learned early on that mentoring is not about color,” said Thompson. “The most wonderful mentors I had were the ones who told me the truth about my leisure suits and my eight-pound Afro.” |
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