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Research now backs up [the] belief that whom you associate with is crucial to who you become.
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Mentoring is a very deliberate activity that requires people to check their ego at the door, hold back from resenting other people’s success, and consciously strives to build beneficial relationships…
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…finding a talented, experienced mentor who is willing to invest the time and effort to develop you as a person and a professional is far more important than making career decisions based purely on salary or prestige.
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A successful mentoring relationship needs equal parts utility and emotion. You can’t simply ask somebody to be personally invested in you. There has to be some reciprocity involved…
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…mentors are all around you. It’s not necessarily your boss or even someone in your business. Mentoring is a nonhierarchical activity that transcends careers and can cross all organizational levels.
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If you take mentoring seriously, and give it the time and energy is deserves, you’ll soon find yourself involved in a learning network…
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If you commit yourself to finding your passion… it’s interesting how that commitment is rewarded with answers.
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…to achieve results… is the only true measure of a team…
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If we don’t trust one another, then we aren’t going to engage in open, constructive, ideological conflict. And we’ll just continue to preserve a sense of artificial harmony.
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Without… passionate and open debate, team members rarely, if ever, buy in and commit to decisions, though they may feign agreement during meetings.
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