Chapter 10 Promote learning conversations
We’re looking for things that come in a minute. It just doesn’t happen. You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life. (Dave Winfield, inductee to National Baseball Hall of Fame, in Cotton et al. 2011)
Introduction
Mentoring could be added to “life and baseball” in the epigraph here. Mentoring relationships are learning relationships, and as such they too must handle the obstacles and problems encountered by mentors and protégés.
Cotton et al. (2011) studied the developmental networks of major league baseball players inducted into the ...
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