Synopses & Reviews
Power MentoringMany of the world's most notable people, including Bill Gates and Bill Clinton, have credited mentoring as a major factor in their success. Despite the obvious benefits of mentoring, the traditional models have failed to keep up with trends in today's business world. Mentoring programs based on career longevity with one organization no longer reflect what's really happening.
Written to reflect the realities of today's business environment, Power Mentoring is a nuts-and-bolts guide for anyone who wants to create a connection with a protégé or mentor, or to improve a current mentoring relationship. Filled with illustrative examples and candid insights from fifty of America's most successful mentors and protégés, Power Mentoring unlocks the secrets of great mentoring relationships and shows how anyone (including those who are well established in their careers, or those who are just starting out) can become a successful mentor or protégé. Based on compelling interviews from Ellen Ensher and Susan Murphy's own research, this important resource explains what it takes to develop a "power mentoring" network consisting of a variety of mentors across a range of organizations and industries. The authors provide strategies for establishing such power mentoring relationships, outline the best practices, and offer insights from mentors and protégés in a variety of fields, including technology, politics, and the media. Included is advice from notables such as
- Bob Wright, vice chairman and executive officer of General Electric and chairman and chief executive officer of NBC Universal
- General Lee Butler, former commander of U.S. nuclear forces
- Rosario Marin, 41st treasurer of the United States
- Leeza Gibbons, executive producer and Emmy Award–winning television personality
- Larry Carter, senior vice president, office of the president, and former chief financial officer, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Power Mentoring includes practical suggestions and advice for applying the lessons learned from successful mentoring relationships and shows how to create an individualized Relationship Development Plan.
Review
"...provides a useful snapshot of the issues, dramas and special challenges women and minorities face in the modern workplace..." (getAbstract, August 2006)
Synopsis
Many of the world's most successful people (Bill Gates and Bill Clinton, for example) credit mentoring as a major factor in their achievements. Research shows that mentoring can be a very effective way to advance one's career and improve one's knowedge and skills. But the traditional models of mentoring have failed to keep up with trends in the business world - programs based on career longevity with one organization no longer mesh with what's really happening. Individuals need to be proactive in creating mentor-protegee relationships, establishing networks of multiple relationships across organizations and industries. The authors provide strategies for establishing such Power Mentoring relationships, and support their concept through interviews with 50 top leaders and their rising-star protegees in technology, politics, and the media, including: Bob Wright, vice chairman of GE and CEO of NBC Gen. Lee Butler, former commander of US nuclear forces Rosario Marin, US treasurer Leeza Gibbons, producer and Emmy-winning TV personality Larry Carter, senior VP and CFO of Cisco Systems Martha Coolidge, Emmy-nominated director and president of the Director's Guild Congresspeople Ron Dellums, David Dreier, and Hilda Solis Nick Donofrio, senior VP of technology & manufacturing at IBM Ron Meyer, president and COO of Universal Studios
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"A wonderfully useful and readable book about the underacknowledged significance of mentoring."
Warren Bennis, author, On Becoming a Leader, and coauthor, Geeks and Geezers
"There are few career relationships as pivotal as the one with a mentor. This wonderful book takes readers deep into the chemistry of the best of these. Full of compelling stories to illustrate its lessons, it is a treasure trove of insights."
Jay A. Conger, Kravis Professor of Leadership, Claremont McKenna College, and author, Building Leaders
"All successful people have someone in their life who helps them at various stages in their development. In Power Mentoring, one finds close-up examples of how mentoring has played an important part leading to individual success. This is one of the most important books on the subject of mentoring to be written in years."
Henry R. Kravis, founding partner of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
"Power Mentoring adeptly bridges the academic-practitioner divide by providing practical advice that is firmly grounded in academic research and the authors' own interviews with an amazing array of power mentors and their protégés. The result is a compelling, accessible, and engaging account of how to create, nourish, and flourish effective mentoring relationships. The book brings mentoring to life, and the reader quickly becomes captivated by the stories, accounts, and narratives of Power Mentoring. From Oprah to Spielberg to Welchwho can resist reading this book?"
Belle Rose Ragins, professor of management, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and coauthor, Mentoring and Diversity: An International Perspective
"Mentoring is so important for any leader, small business owner, or entrepreneurthis book is a must-read!"
Charles Segars, head, Fine Living Cable Network, and executive producer of the movie National Treasure
Synopsis
Written to reflect the realities of today’s business environment, Power Mentoring is a nuts-and-bolts guide for anyone who wants to create a connection with a protégé or mentor, or to improve a current mentoring relationship. Filled with illustrative examples and candid insights from fifty of America's most successful mentors and protégés, Power Mentoring unlocks the secrets of great mentoring relationships and shows how anyone (including those who are well established in their careers, or those who are just starting out) can become a successful mentor or protégé. Based on compelling interviews from Ellen Ensher and Susan Murphy’s own research, this important resource explains what it takes to develop a “power mentoring” network consisting of a variety of mentors across a range of organizations and industries. The authors provide strategies for establishing such power mentoring relationships, outline the best practices, and offer insights from mentors and protégés in a variety of fields including technology, politics, and the media.
About the Author
Ellen A. Ensher is an associate professor of management at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California.
Susan Elaine Murphy is an associate professor of psychology at Claremont McKenna College and the associate dean of the Henry R. Kravis Leadership Institute in Claremont, California.
Table of Contents
1 Introduction to Power Mentoring.Who Are Our Power Mentors and Protégés?
The Changing Career Landscape.
Overview of the Book.
2 The Many Faces of Power Mentoring.
Classic Versus Contemporary Approaches to Mentoring.
The Many Types of Power Mentoring.
Conclusion.
3 Mentoring as a Two-Way Street: Benefits of Giving and Receiving.
Give-and-Take in Power Mentoring Relationships.
Road Map to This Chapter.
Meet the Power Mentors and Protégés: Stories of Give-and-Take.
Summary of Benefits for Protégés and Mentors.
Conclusion.
4 The Mind of the Mentor.
Mental Models: The Philosophies of Mentoring.
The Mentor’s Attraction to the Protégé.
The Perfect Protégé.
Tests and Challenges.
Conclusion.
5 The Protégé’s Perspective: How to Get and Keep a Power Mentor.
Initiation and Attraction.
Developing Trust in the Mentoring Relationship.
Identifying a Power Mentor.
Cultivating the Art of Impression Management.
Developing a Goal-Oriented Attitude.
Forming Connection Strategies.
Conclusion.
6 Unlocking the Secrets of Great Power Mentoring Relationships.
Building Blocks of Effective Relationships.
Defining Moments.
Deepening the Mentoring Relationship.
Conclusion.
7 Power Mentoring and You.
The Relationship Development Plan.
Conclusion.
8 Conclusion: What We Have Learned About Mentoring in Today’s Work Environment.
Turning Everyday Mentoring into Power Mentoring.
What We Know About Effective Mentoring Relationships.
What We Are Still Learning About Mentoring Relationships.
The Lessons of Power Mentoring for Formal Mentoring Programs.
Getting a Formal Mentoring Program Off the Ground.
Conclusion.
Appendix A: The Interviewees.
Appendix B: Studying Power Mentoring Relationships.
Notes.
Acknowledgments.
The Authors.
Index.