The Mentor’s Guide, 2nd Edition

Chapter 1 Introduction

DOI: 10.4324/9781003163862-1

It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet. (Miyamoto Musashi, in Kaufman 2003, 12)

Mentoring has taken up a considerable portion of my professional life. Early in my career I was the alumni director at a top-ranked business school in the United States, Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. At Fuqua, I witnessed the positive outcomes of building effective networks of relationships. Later, at North Carolina State University, I spent more than a decade awarding millions of dollars from the generous trustees of the Park Foundation to talented undergraduates through the Park Scholarships. I developed a faculty–student mentoring program for these Park Scholars. ...