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Become a Mentor
Nobody does it alone. Each person who is successful today is successful as a result of the ideas, input, wisdom, and guidance of people they have met throughout their careers. Sometimes this mentoring is direct: one-on-one private sessions aimed at helping the individual to identify areas for improvement and to implement new ideas and skills in that area.
Sometimes mentoring is indirect. It comes from working with senior people possessed of greater wisdom and experience, and learning from those people by observing how they do their jobs and handle their responsibilities. The best mentor I ever had personally was a senior executive who never mentored me at all. Instead, he let me sit in on meetings where significant issues ...
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